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LIABILITIES 


THE POBLIC:— 
DEAFIE ANGLER occ: csopsartcinsscctas yeas acey . $185, 248, 278. 72 
cing interest, including interest accrued 
LURE 11) Lt sera ii nbene pug ters Vedanta pp Maga: "197,348,439,20 
Bank in Oirculation.............. 
to Dominion Government < 
to other Banks in Canada... 26,794.90 


to Banks and Banking Correspondents 
ted Kingdom and foreign countries...... 6,068,926.22 


Ghar patete of “Credit 


‘0 THE SHAREHOLDERS: — 


al Stock Paid in... 
eve Fund 


“ $ 15,000,000.00 


nee of Profits carried forward VT5TAD 

jidend No, 125 (at 12° per cent.’ per mera 
pevable December 2nd, 1918. 420,000.00 
10,122.95 


Dividends Unclaimed 


$ 17,488,814.07 
24,636,344,.75 


ae $ 42,124,658.82 


in’ the Central Gold ‘Apes cae ---  26,000,000.00 
«of other Banks... -  10,678,020.86 
neques on other Banks... 7 20,084,899.80 


The Royal Bank of Canada. 


$332,591,717.92 


39,880,975.74 
9,000,000,00 


6,095,721.12 


316,058.48 
10, 162) 629.56 


$897,547,102.77 


14,000,000.00 


15,585,757.19 


480,122.95 


$427,512,982.91 


GENERAL STATEMENT 
30th November, 1918 


a AUDITORS’ CERTIFICATE 


¥ 


We report to the Shareholders of The Royal Bank of Canada:— 


| 


That in our opinion the transactions of the Bank which have come under our 


_ notice have been within the powers of the bank. 


“Phat we have checked the cash and verified the securities of the Bank at the Ohiet 
Office at 80th November, 1918, as well as at another time, as required by Section 56 
of the Bank Act, and that we found they agreed with the entries in the books in regard 


thereto. 


We also during the year checked the cash and- verified the securities at the 
‘principal branches. ; 


That the above Balance Sheet has been compared by us with the books at the 


~ Ohief Office and with the certified ‘returns from the Branches, and in our opinion is 


properly drawn up so as to exhibit a true and correct view of the state of the Bank’s 
affairs according to the best of our orien s ire and the explanations given us and 
*, 


as shown by the books of the Bank, 


That we have obtained all the information and seplenationi required by us.. 


JAMES MARWIOK, 0.A, 
. ROGER MITCHELL, 6.A. 


Oe of Marwick, Mitchell, Peat and Co. 
S. Ross and Sons. 
» 


J. W. ROSS, 0.A., of P? 
Montreal, Canada, 18th December, 1918, 


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Auditors 


PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT. 


Balance of Profit and Loss Account, 30th November, 
1917 
Profits for the year, after deducting thane of 
management and all other expenses, accrued in- 
terest on deposits, full provision for all bad and 
doubtful debts and rebate of interest on un- 
matured Dills..cc.c. akiestddceanseansrnnekspeesucantabe 


564,264.53 


2,809,846.24 


$ | 8,374,110.77 


alances due id oy Banks in leg 4 6,042.80 APPROPRIATED AS FOLLOWS:— 
‘lances due by nks an anking Correspon ents ea 
elaewhere than a. Oanida. oe 10,891,516.44 Dividends Nos, 122, 123, 124. and 125, at 12 per 
ominion and Prvuyincial Government Securities, not . cent. per annum... -- ® 1,614,702,00. 
OxoCodINE MALKet VANE ice ieee eco ue dc spans 86,599,976.37 ] Transferred to Officers’ Pension Fun 100,000.00 
wae en erie eee and Aaplig te ea ae Written off Bank Premises Account.; 400,000.00 
nm OLOTI LM uo c ecurt ies otner ran ana-  * ¥ . ; a 
ieee not exceeding market value... 0.0.0.0 u 29,620,885.90 War Tax on’ Bank Note Circulation 188,651.58 
ilway and other Bonds, Debentures and laine Contribution to Patriotic Funds,..... 40,000.00 
not pie edn ee phenol ea Siee Ses RSasiay : 40, 084)214.68 Contribution to Halifax Relief Fund 50,000.00 
Veteee “es he e eee ath £ Henao enue 40.067,381.94 nn Transferred to Reserve Tund................. 500,000.00 
‘nd Short (not exceeding 30 da Hara NE Balance of Profit and Loss carried forward... §85,757,.19 
ee nets ee ROE Si gan ont at : $ 8,874,110.77 
a * 4 A ates ‘ 
furrent Loans and D 
e of interest): $119,184,715.26 RESERVE FUND < 
‘urrent Loans. and Discounts pa pice po than ‘3 shill ' : 
ada (less rebate of interest) ne 64,175,163.85 A 
Debts a kentiaetod loss provided for). 388,513.29 ebay agaaa Balance at Credit 80th November, 1917-00000... $ 14,000,000,00 
Pe et TH Premium on New Capital Stock issued to Northern : 
ECU ah Grown Bank Shareholders.....-.0:.c.c-secscesees aes 500,000.00 
io 1eRe20 8s Transferred from Profit and Loss Account... 500,000.00 
742,818.75 
218,910.19 Balance at Oredit 80th November, 1918.............. $ 15.000,000.00 
i $427,512,982.91 i 
4 ‘ H. 8,. HOLT, EDSON L. peal 0. et NEILL, 
an : President. Managing Director, eneral Manager. 
H, 8. HOLT, EDSON 1. PRASE, ©. B, NEILL, te and . 
President. Managing Director. General Manager. Montreal, 18th December, 1918. ’ 


AW FURS 


IDES, WOOL 
ENECA ROOT nS 


yours to us. You can depend 
gtading, top prices and prompt 
yment. Write for Price List. 


LEVINSON & BROS. 


RIRCOGAE BYES WINDIDAE, RE: 1 PAY ALL EXPRES: 


RAW FURS 


w. C. DAVIS 


P.O.‘BOX NO, 161 
SPRINGSIDE, ‘SASK. 


and receive full market value. 


CHARGES 


—Raw Furs— y 


Trappers, Traders and : 


Farmers 


We have a pllogs order for MUSKRAT 
SKUNE and LF, and are. prepared 
to pay top prices for such 
all your furs to us ieambatavety: 
Te will pe nd you to write for our Free 
ce 


A. & E. Pierce & Co. 


‘The Largest Raw Fur Merchanta 
= in Cane 
213 PACIFIC AVE., WINNIPEG, Man. 


3, iewert & a? 


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SASKATCHEWAN s 
VEN, FRASER and | 
aderson, D. A. Me- 
v. Rose and A, F.. 
8 and Solicitors. 
iewan Municipal Hail ~ 
Saskatchewan Associa-, 
ilities. Money to Loan. 


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‘ va issue are Wool growers whose wool has been — 
no longer subject to the ee "marked through the Canadian Co-opera~ 
arrangement which has been hitherto in tive Wool Growers’ Association will be 
operation. Information to this effect interested-in a review of the associa- 
was received ty The Guide just as this tion’s activities, ‘including the sales 

issue was going to press, and was too made in Boston in December, found on 
| late for the Business and Finance depart- page 14. The U.S. government has 
ment; it will be found on a later page. removed the fixed price for wool and 
As a result of the 1917 Victory Bonds next year’s clip both in Canada and 
being now on sale on the open market that country will be marketed under 
of the stock exchanges the prices will open market conditions. paeas 


Victory Bonds of last 


Y FISHER, Bee 
ITOR, NOTARY PUB- 
Wxaminer, etc. — 
ing, Winnipeg, Man. 
Main 9150 
ERMID (John D. Fer- 
MacDermid; L. McK. | probably vary, in accordance with the | 
Jormid). Special atten: | supply and demand. At present the — 
Donte, nena ee | bonds maturing in 1922 are about 98, _ 
pie sHRAIER those maturing in 1927 are at par, and ho or ae . 
Err, BOL, (ving), | those maturing in 1937 are at 1014-102. ane a ¢ 
\, Barrister, Solicitor, | The 1919 issues are still under the con-— owith uns 
pects) attention to | trol of the price-fixing arrangement be- 
8. 211 Hammond Build- | hind which the Dominion government 


of the representatives of 


catchewan. stands: is 
ERSON & BROAD, An informing book on Canada, ‘‘The 
and Solicitors Evolution of the Dominion of Canada, - 


n, Ward H. Patterson) Its Government ‘and Its Politics,’’ by 
‘k, 109 Bighth Ave. Peg Edward Porritt, who is well-known to 

Phone: M. 6358. | the readers of The Guide, has recentiy  W 
tive that the farm wom 


be blished in New York, and is re-. 
een published in New York, and is re bational ibe 


‘KIN, GRUNDY, BEN | viewed in this issue. It isa singularly 
FUER Oey HOSKIN. | interesting as well as valuable ook, and ‘The tentative convention programs 
ate, Bank of Hamilton | i8 meeting with remarkable success in which have so far reached The Guide 
eg. the United States as well as in this office indicate that the farm women’s | 
ie ahi It may be obtained from the conventions in the three provinces are 
ae Book epee of The Grain Grow- to be better and bigger in every way | 
fedical ; ers’ Giude, which will send it, postpaid, this year, Remarkable growth in 
cone — - for $1.75. — ee : : number of organizations and member- 
sANGER AND BOISSON- 
ysicians and Surgeons. 


Cn : a 3 i e during the year 
Swindling salesmen are being trained “iP bas taken place during batde 
" Midwifery —-Have most | for 2 pt eg A both in the Satuing tet Wepiri ao hate says ae ya ae a 
iratus.. Genito-urinary di- | States and in Western Canada to gather VOT. 0% fecontin this Eines eo 
- 19011 Jasper Avenue | in a h book abee a s, band, must make this year’s conven. 
Street), Edmonton, Alta __& harvest of easy money, their tions a notable page in the history of 
09, 4903. Dr, Boulanger, | Plans including the obtaining of Liberty 4,, movement page ete A 
fraduate, Paris and London cent : ; 


and Victory Bonds from holders whom : ee oe 
sonneault, B.A. B.L.,M.D., | they hope to be able to deceive into Is Wheat Needed? The question i 
w York Hospitals. . 


letting them go. Information about asked and answered in an arti¢le o - sight ean 
| these preparations for a swindling cam- page 9 by A. H. Bailey, C madian. oe welfare of 
| paign, which are being investigated by manager of the Northwestern Miller, him, 


’atents officials of the United States govern- the leading journal of the milling busi- baht 
EES: ment, will be found in the Business and ness in North America. — The article |}. i Tey omega 
RIUNITIES ‘Finance department of this issue, analyzes the sourees and amounts of low, eonditions liberal ar 
AGN ; the world’s immediately available ae learly expressed, while the pro: 
Pinas nay ~o [doo . ft returns to: Policyhold 


ION and the revival of in- 
cow in progress and Manu- — 
quiring for new devices of. 


The tariff is one of the old questions. |). ‘ 
that are for ever new. At least it wheal supplies. 


: Sates notably gratifying. 
will continue to be new until the in- Some time ago we received an enquiry 


Let us explain ( 
eeds, 


ERS are invited to acquaint fluenee of the people outweighs the in- from a firm of fertilizer manufacturers — pn tox yous 

ain ‘tough “wis eppltedais ‘| fluence of the ti ‘interests at Ottawa’ as to the need of a material for eorrect- | The Gi a t We a 

ait Oar Gt How it affects the people is well set ing acidity in the soils of the West. || "ME Great-West Lite 
: nee Comp. 


aying “Commercial ideas, “no 
uple, should protect the same 


forth by A. 8. Handicap, in two articles There appears to be no such need at Ags 
entitled ‘‘The Tariff and How it “present. The reason is given by Dr. |] eesti 
Works,’? the second of which appears Shipley, of the Manitoba Agricultural Dent. 
c - College on page 23. us : tie 


formation will be sent on = | | 8) 
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Is it possible to raise 82 bushels of wheat per acre? ‘‘Sure,’’ says Mr. Wheeler. How? 
“PROFITABLE GRAIN GROWING’’ TELLS YOU 


Ts is possible to influence the yield to the extent of ten bushels per acre through not 
Seeding the proper depth? ‘‘It is,’’ says Mr. Wheeler. Why? How? 


‘(PROFITABLE GRAIN GROWING’’ TELLS YOU 


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e new year brings with it a new dawn of 


ear 1918, the old era has passed into ‘‘the 


in destruction as complete as that to which 
the devil-possessed swine in the Scriptures 


rushed headlong down a steep place. 
A new era is now beginning. The dawning — 


__ of the new year lights the way to the possibility 
of a peace settlement by which there shall be 
established some sort of central and authorita- 
tive world council to safeguard the world’s 


peace. Whether that arrangement be called — 


a the League of Nations, or by some other name, 
_ will not matter; the thing itself will be the 


all-important thing, not the name of it. If 
the peace settlement does not establish some 


such arrangement, the sacrifices and agonies 
of the war will have been in a very large 
- Measure in vain. 


Ay ig Heros ad. desthe aimee the be. 


ginning of August, 1914, for the sake of the 
future of humanity, demand the creation of an 
effective League of Nations, an arrangement for 
the safeguarding of the peace of the world. 


This can only be done by the peace settlement 
being made in the open daylight of world 
publicity, with no‘secret conclaves, or back- 


gtairs intriguings, or concealed treaties or 


understandings, or anything else of the diplo- - 


matic methods of the old era, which have 
resulted in such slaughterings of humanity, 
century after century. _ 


No More Secret Diplomacy 
The whole essential idea of the old era in 


_ international relations, century after century, 
was that each of the world powers was for ever 


in conflict and competition with other powers, — 


trying in every way to gain an advantage over 
them by crafty diplomacy and to. cause 
dissensions between dangerous rivals and 
undermine powerful antagonists, no alliance 
being made except for defence and attack of 
rival powers. The idea of a common welfare 
for mankind did not enter at all into that 
concepticn of statecraft, whose whole inspira- 
tion was what H. W. Wood, President of the 
- Canadian Council of Agriculture, in his paper 
on “Organization for Democracy,” has named 
‘the law of animal selfishness.’’ 2a. 
The essential idea of the League of Nations 
proposal is the safeguard of the common wel- 
fare of mankind. How is this idea to be made 
a working reality in the world? What are the 
chief difficulties this idea is up against? The 
latter of these two questions is dealt with in 
a recent article by H. G. Wells, who is doing 
‘valuable service by his penetrating and 
thought-stimulating contributions towards the 
general enlightenment in regard to the out- 
standing world’s problems in the present 
turning point in history. 
The conclusion Mr. Wells arrives at is that 


what the League of Nations is really up. 


against is secret diplomatic methods. He 
All the world, all that is sane in this world, 
wants to get through this peace business without 


gnaw wainscot or mosquitoes spread malaria. It 

“ip ther nature sO tOrdO, oF ek ae i 
" L have been a steadfast advocate of this war 
and of pushing this war to the completest victory 


over. Ger: 1 ; 
1‘ jimize or condone the general and the particular 


=) 
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3 


7 aie 


New Year and a New Era 
ope for humanity. With the ending of the 


dark backward and abysm of Time.” The | 
© armed manhood of the world’s free peoples, 
triumphant at a terrible cost in the life and 
death struggle in defence of freedom and 
human rights, has destroyed the old material- 
ism embodied in the German lust for world 
_ dominion and the German determination to 
achieve that end by _ ruthless savageries. 
 Autocratic militarism has been overwhelmed — 


‘more for export. 


‘govern, 
‘States and the certainty of a surplus, it seems 
equally certain that the American market will — 
be closed to Canadian wheat. That being 
the case, the European market will be the only 
one available. 


any more secret treaties’ and understandings. — 
But Foreign Offices make secret treaties as rats 


many, and I would be the last man to — 


the system by which ‘ 
many.” oe 
The Wheat Situation __ 
What will the Carladian wheat erop of 1919 
bring on the Winnipeg market next fall and 


winter? This is a question of vital interest, | 


nct only to the wheat growers, but to every 


business institution as. well. The world wheat. 
situation will decide the Canadian price. On 


an ther page of this issue we publish an 


authoritative article by A. H. Bailey reviewing — 
the situation as far as it is known in the 


wheat exporting and the wheat importing 
COUDtTIEN, 40 ee 
The United States Congress has guaranteed 
a minimum price of $2.26 per bushel for the 
1919 wheat crop, and this guaranteed price 
will stand till June, 1920. One effect of it 
already has been to put 49,000,000 acres into 
winter wheat as against 40,000,000 acres in 
1915, the big wheat year. It is expected that 


the spring wheat area will also be greatly | 


increased, due to the fixed price. The United 
States wheat crop next year possibly may 
produce 500,000,000 bushels or considerably 
t. Argentine and Australia 
today have a surplus awaiting only trans- 
portation to carry it to Europe. Great Britain 


has a guaranteed price for another three years, — 


which is already greatly increasing her wheat 
production. 


~The next wheat crop in Canada may provide 
- from two to three times as much for export 
~as the 1918 crop. There is no price fixed in 


Canada, The law of supply and demand will 
With a fixed price in the United 


If there is a wheat shortage, 
prices will hold up. But if there is a wheat 
‘surplus, which present prospects seem to 
indicate, prices will drop. 


to the wheat requirements of Europe and 
Russia in order to advise Canadian farmers on 
the subject. ie 


In the light of the uncertainty of wheat _ 
prices the only wise course for farmers to. 
pursue is to bring down the cost of production — 
to the lowest possible point. This can be done 


told of the manufacturers. of 
_ having organized for 
The formation of s 
signs of the times. Usually such 
-earried on quietly. Those who 


anything leaks out about their 
Vare-annoyed, 


‘The Dominion — 
Government, through its trade commission — 
overseas, should be gathering information as — 


a like purpose. 
uch organiza 


active in such work, as a rule, fee 
the public knows about it the 


no a 
in support of it. But the justice of 
will not always in this world ensure 
put into operation. Organization is 
to make justice prevail. 
There is need of more organ’ 


the farmers and greater co-ope 


use of their power to secure pouti 


towards hastening in this country t 
of the new era of the square deal, 
tet for all and fees privileg 
The new year should see larger 1 
in the Grain Growers’ organizations 
local associations, and increase 
them all, ee 


Express Rates Inf 
There is yet no sign of any 


justification by the express co 
their attempted discrimination 


‘West in the new schedule of 
which the express companies ha 
and have asked the Canadian Bo 


‘Commissioners to sanction. If 


new rates are allowed to go. 


the charges for carrying expres. 
West will be from 10 to 39 p 


than the charges for carrying t) 


of the same matter over equal 


Hast, as was set 
Guide last week. 
In the Wester 


rth in tabv 


“In the Western freight ra’ 
the railway companies were. 


that it costs any more to car 
prairies than in Eastern C 
cost any more to carry e 


to a certain extent by wise management on 


the farm. It can be done to a greater extent — 
by having taxes removed from everything the _ 


farmer buys, reduction in freight rates, express 5 np 


rates and other charges that affect the cost of — 
production. But these charges can only be 


reduced through organized effort. ‘There 


never was a time in the history of Canada __ 
when organization was worth more to the 


farmers than it is today. Organization will _ negligi 
~aecomplish but little in keeping wheat prices 

up, but it will accomplish tremendous results — 
in keeping the cost of production down. The 


Bi, the duane and to the E 
£Fe, : 
ce Cncardicslonars found that in 
yeurs previous to 1911, which were 
_ by their investigation, the Dominion 
press Company, which is a subsidiary cor- 
‘ation of the C.P.R., with a total of only 
$.,,000 then paid up on its $2,000,000 capital- 
ization, had paid the C.P.R. no less than 
413,409,240; that the Canadian Express Com- 
any, with a total of $27,520 paid up on its 
100,000. capitalization, had paid the Grand 
unk an average of $923,909 per annum; 
1 that the Canadian Northern Express 
npany, owned ‘by Mackenzie and Mann 
their associates, with only $5,000 paid 
mits $1,000,000 capitalization, had paid 
Canadian Northern $353,126 in the six 
‘of its existence. 
é increases in express rates which the 
‘ss corporations are now proposing are of 
idedly substantial character. If they are 
ed to come into operation they will be 
id on to the ultimate consumer of course 
will so add, in each case, to the cost of 
commodity in question, © 


to Canadian Northern Ads..: 


the beginning of the holiday season 
way advertisements in the papers, as 
avery year, have been greatly enlarged 
bellished with special illustrations. 
tay officials whose duty it is to attend 
tising do their best to outrival one 
i making their advertisements compel 
“ot only in the season when there 
ase of travel, but all the year 

their duty to go out after the 


way advertising that was designed 
ie eyes of those planning to travel — 
xend Christmas in the old home 
sueceeded by equally large and 
advertising setting forth the desir- 
travelling to the Pacific Coast at 
5 time. 
ione cirapetinne) thing to be noted 
‘on with this railway advertising. 
e advertisements to attract busi- 
transcontinental railway system, 
n over by the people of Canada, 
iing its old name of the Canadian 
rain from making any mention 
the fact that the Canadian 
em is now owned by the people 


va ok 


ashi 


OP Weare ond 0} 


Government. 
In all these conspicuous advertisements: of | 
this transcontinental railway system owned 


by the people of Canada, why is there this. 


strange omission of any mention of public 
ownership and operation of the system. 
are in Canada immensely powerful interests 


opposed with all their might to the nationaliza- 


tion of transportation. They neglect nothing © 
which may serve to place that idea in an 


unfavorable light. They do not spare either 
money or trouble in propagating the doctrine 
that public ownership is of necessity fore- 
doomed to failure. Surely in the advertising 
of the Canadian Northern for both passenger 
and freight business, prominent and conspic- 
uous use should be made of the fact that the 
Canadian Northern is now owned by the 
people of Canada and Operas as a Dominion 
railway. 

In is old days of private ownership of the 
Canadian Northern there was a widespr2ad 
feeling against that system, and many people 
would not use it when they could travel or 
make their shipments over another system. 
Why should not every means be taken now of 
nullifying any lingering remnants of that old 
feeling against the Canadian Northern? Why 
should it not be brought before public attention 
in Canadian Northern advertisements that in 
making use of the passenger and freight trains 
of that system people will be helping towards 
making the system pay and will so be helping 
to reduce the amount of their money that 
must come out of the Dominion treasury on 
Canadian Northern account? 


Aerial Rights - of - way ey 


At Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, 
an aerial transportation company is being 
promoted, with a capitalization of $25,000, 
to do business between the Island and the 
mainland. Which prompts the Ottawa Citizen 
to point out that the promotion of such com- 
panies may spring up all over Canada, tending 
to establish private vested rights in the air 
from Cape Breton Island to Vancouver Island; 
says the Citizen:— 

Already there are signs of antnaty among the 
class of corporation lawyers and politicians who 
live largely on their ability to get franchises from 
governments. The people of Canada, the national 
interest in aviation, must be protected by making 
it plain that it is unlawful for private indi viduals 


DONT You THINK we overt 
To MAKE A PRETENCE AT 
JUSTIFYING THE HIGHER 
) RATES IN THE WeST FOR 
) THe Same SERVICE ? 


GAME OF GIVING THE WEST 


perated under the control of “ 
_ aboard of divectors appointed by the Domini mn - fy 


Farmers’ Platform is as follows:— oo 
water ao 
here 


anies to en ; 
fe “ quite as reat ye ‘as it: pe 
engage in letter-carrying for profit, 
The Ottawa Citizen is not the first to draw 
attention to this matter. Plank 9 of Seu 


Public ownership and control of railway, 
and aerial ben ply So en telephone. telegraph L 
and express systems, all projects in the d 


industry. 


We may well believe that ingenious legal 
brains are studying out ways and means of 


staking out rights-of-way through the air and = 


making them private mie from which | 
their chartered owners will be able to divs 
trespassers. 


et 


Proportional representation, in favor of 


which there is a declaration in the Farmers’ 


Platform, has been adopted by New South 
Wales for the next elections in that State of 
the Australian Commonwealth. The _ bill 


- adopting proportional representation has pass- 


ed both houses of the Legislature of that 
State. Proportional representation will in 
time come to be seen as an inevitable necessity 


in every democracy. Without it there is not 


just representation of the people. One of its 
most advantageous features is that it exercises 
a blighting effect upon the system of blind 
political partisanship, which is so fruitful a 
source of evil in the body politic. 


In the new era which may well be looked 
forward to at the dawning of the new year, 
it is to be hoped that there will be less and 
less of the old blind political partisanship, and 
more and more of intelligent citizenship. 
Nothing will better hasten the coming of the 
new era than for more and more Canadians — 
to realize that devotion to any “grand old 
party,’ with no fixed principles which its 
devotees can say they are voting for, is a 


thing to be ashamed of. 


In a’ speech at Glasgow last week, Bonar 
Law, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said that 
reform of the House of Lords, ‘‘so as to give 
the new Upper House the strength that can 
alone come from direct access with the people,” 
would be one of the tasks undertaken by the 
Coalition Government, headed by Lloyd 
George, if it were continued i in power. Soon 
the Senate at Ottawa will be the only Upper 
House, so called, anywhere left unreformed. 


= ~ So 


we cant! weve Gor ‘To 
GLOFF IT ovr! WE MUST 
STAND BY THE PRINCIPLE 
OF MAKING THE WEST PAY 
MORE THan THe East! | 


THE WORST OF IT. 


evelop- : 
ment of natural power, and of the coal mining oe 


 OTa.. ; 


4 


a Ue New Year and the New Era—Si me More Divers 


ECEMBER 31.--On this New 
Year’s eve is there anyone who 
| ean fail to feel that the world is 
on the eve of a new era? The 
year that is ending tonight will 


be forever the most wonderful year in 


history, It is the last year of the old 


The new year, v 
night, will belong to the new era. 

t is with a shudder that we look 
back now to last New Year’s eve, and 
remember how 1918 began in anxiety 


and gloom, under the ever darkening 
storm cloud that was cast over civiliz- 
ation by the German reversion to savag- 


And the cloud grew heavier as the 


weeks passed, until in March and April 
the sky was blacker than at any time 
since the days in 1914, when the millions 


‘of spike-helmeted slaves of Hohenzol- 


lerism were pouring across Belgium and 
France, before they were checked at the 
Marne. : ; 

The Most Memorable of All Years 
‘(Truly,’? said I, this night to Snags. 


by and Tankerton when we were smok-. 


together, ‘‘neither the year 


ing a pi 
panish Armada, 1588, nor the 


of the 


year of Napoleon’s final overthrow at 


Waterloo, 1815, will not thrill future 
generations as the year 1918 will. They 
were not years filled with so great 
achievements, and so big with destiny 
for mankind.’’ 


‘Right you are!’? said Snagsby. 


“‘We are living now at the greatest 


turning point in all history. Never be- 
fore has the world made such a leap 
of transition as it is making now from 
one epoch into another.’’ 


‘*The poor old world!’’ said Tanker. — 


ton, ‘*You say it is making a leap from 
one epoch into another. That is the 
truth, of course. But the world persists 
in figuring in my mind’s eye as a badly 
battered up old party, who has been 
having a terrible time of it and is now 
foreed to the necessity of seeing that 
he must reform his ways completely.’’ 


The Spirit of the New. Era 
It is a solemn thought that the new 


era has been bought for us by so much ~ 


blood, by so many heroic sacrifices. Life 
has been made @ consecrated thing for 
48S Who. survive, by the deaths of so 
many, that not to live worthily in the 


which beping at mid.” 


makes for good in the world. : 
The spirit of the new era is pourin, 


itself like a flood-tide into the world. 
- Who is there can fail to be aware that 
destiny is moving now towards great — 
things for mankind? | DE eM 
We stand now, to use an expression — 


of Carlyle’s, 
eternity.’’ 


at ‘‘the eross roads of 


war and passed through the dark veils 


of time and matter are also looking for- 
ward and back. Must we not believe 


that they are regarding us with hopes 


and Sundry Comments on t 


"new era will be a deeper offence than 
it was ever before against all that 


We look both forward and back as 


those who gave up their lives in the | i 


that we will go forward with courage 


and with true purpose to make civiliz- — : 
ation better because of their having ~ 


died that it might be better? 


I wrote thus far, after Snagsby and 


Tankerton went home and left me ‘to 
continued much longer. But I will 
write down no more of them here. 


Comments on the Farmers’ Platform 
Instead, I must give my attention to 


the papers and letters which have been 


accumulating on my table. And first I 
must make note of some more of the 
comments upon the Farmers’ Platform 
in divers and sundry papers. 

From the comment in the Toronto 
Saturday Night I make room for the 
opening paragraph:— | 

The platform adopted at Winnipeg 
recently by the Canadian Council of Agri- 
culture appears to have set agog the pro- 
fessional politicians and their organs, 
They cannot quite comprehend just what 
it means or how it may affect their future 
plans. ‘‘The religious faith’’ of farmers, 
as one of the chief official terms it, with 
the addition of some readjustment meas- 
ures, is practically a reaffirmation of their 
stand, taken prior to the war on political 
and economical questions, and may be said 
to be largely in harmony with a certain 
western spirit : 
strongly entrenched. That fact must be 
admitted. In future elections’ the plat- 
form is bound to play an important part 
in the western provinces. 


‘Far Outranges Any Party Platform’’ 


Next in the heap comes the Toronto 
Globe. Here are some sentences from 
the Globe’s editorial on the Farmers’ 
Platform :— ' 

It far outranges any party platform 

Dominion. Y ‘ 

The outstanding feature of the program 
is the denunciation of protective. tariffs. 

There is no uncertain sound about the de- 

claration that ‘‘as the protective tariff is 

the most wasteful and costly method ever 
designed for raising national revenue, be- 
cause for every dollar obtained thereby 
for the public treasury at least three dol- 
lars pass into the pockets of the protected 
interests, thereby building up a privileged 
class at the expense of he masses, thus 
making the rich richer and the poor 
poorer,’’ Or of the further declaration 
that ‘‘the protective tariff has been and 
is a chief corrupting influence in our. 
national life, because the protected inter- 
ests, in order to maintain their unjust 
privileges, have contributed lavishly to 
Petal campaign funds, thus encouraging 
oth political parties to look to them for 
support, thereby lowering the standard of 

public morality.’ 20.0, 


_a Terri 


yearly becoming more’ 


my New Year’s eve meditations, which 


heretofore presented ‘to the people of the 


| 


b) 
‘form 


Farmers’ 


~ should commend itself to the city dweller 
and the industrial worker, as well as to 
the producers on the land. ae ie 
In effect, it would tend to build up agri- 
eulture and other natural industries, such 
as mining, fishing, lumbering, shipping, 


and the subsidiary enterprises especially | 


related to the great main pred cet ty 
industries. The natura) industries’ woul 

become prosperous as they have never 
' been before’ under normal. conditions in 


Canada. More people would be inclined — 
to make permanent homes for themselves 


on the land; but those who continued to 
engage in business and industrial oceupa- 
tions in the cities \would also benefit by 
the general increase in wealth production 
from the natural resources of Canada, 
“and by the cheapening of living costs, 


The proposal of the Canadian’ Cowicil — 
of Agriculture to place all foodstuffs on — 


the free list would mean a substantial re- 
duction in prices. Canadian farmers do 
not benefit 


against food imports to Canada. Prices 


are increased to the consumer by the in-- 


tervening protected interests — packers, 
canners, millers, and the like. This is ob- 
vious, not only in the abnormal dividends 


es, but by their opposition to the farm: 


ers’ proposals to abolish the taxes on 
ood. : : 


Taxation of Implements 


After dealing with the unjustifiability 


of taxes on food, the Ottawa Citizen 
takes up the unjustifiability of the tax- 
ation of farm implements and other 
things necessary in the industries which 
develop the natural resourees of the 


‘country :— 


When Canada has great fertile tracts 
of land, well served by railways, there is 
no intelligence in taxing the farm imple- 
ments and other necessities required Oe 
the producers to cultivate that land. 


Canada has immensely valuable mineral 1 1 
ing land out of ~ 


deposits and coal lands. What sense is 

. there in maintaining a heavy tax on min- 
ing machinery? Canada is in need of ships 
and trawlers: the fishing industry has re- 
mained almost stationary for many years, 
while no country is more favorably. situ: 
i ated for fisheries and waterways. The 
policy of tariff protectionism has made it 
impossible to build ships in Canada on a 
commercial basis. Some are sy | built 
at present, to be government-owned; and 
they are costing the people of this country 
more than twice the price of similar ships 
built in British yards. : ‘ 


‘And the Ottawa Citizen's editorial 
closes with these words:— 
At this time, when many people in 


‘Canada are conscious of the need for 
economic and political readjustment, and _ 
while the old political parties have nothing’ 


e Time Of It ai 
His Ways Completely. 


y the present tariff barriers — 


aid by such food manufacturing compan: | 


loaded with blar 
_ to raise such a 
» Farmer 


* Plat 


_ thus puts its’ 
able to pret: 


patrioticall 
dangerous 


revenue fi 
cial Post ra. 


asks how the’ 


to be derive’? 
NG es 
suggest]? 12 
lowet t@r 
willing then 
of that dire. 
sent as an al 
pied land w 
farmer but it 
Settlers and h 
erease in the i 
- more effect up 
f we are to. 
United States- 
‘yet available— 
of the total i 
year was pas’ 
Tf it is aifne 
in the Stat, 
in Canada. 


In Regar. 


That the de. 


posals set forth 
form for  raisiz, 
revenue mainly. by... 
pene has been 

reat Britain and. th 
which have raised 
war taxation by: ¢ 
perty and income, 
raised only one-tenth 
other nine-ter” : 
taxes on ¢o1 


most heavily t. 


What the Fi 
taxing unoceupied .... 
other comment than 
fact that it is admiral 


_ winning the applause of 


readers who are land f 
re 

bales of easy 

are exceedingly 


‘proposal in the , 


And what the 


‘about the income 
tention at all, ex. 
is a fact tha‘ ther 


only the mer begin 
come tax sys. n in 


beginning has bven baa. 
“income tax net isn’t ri 


ri 
rightly handled, it wil 
haul it should; and th 
away will not all be of 
but they will ‘be of all 


and Is Now Forced to the Necessity of Sec 


mary of eda figures wol 
600, 000,000. bushels. mn) 
: tube. hess other foodstuffs 
‘As*against this quantity 
- production’in countries concerned or near 
ape to fgure as sources of immediate 
i ly is shown by Table 1. 
i rops of other grains that may be eed x 
y Ree Rants ee ‘ ©} as human food are shown in Table 2 
ssof people figs ay Bey ae hie ‘ oe | Problem is One of Trans jortation ; : 
attentive a suerte pt: NE i : a These tables show a decided increase 
“the war — Al UNA Ay sd Se Aa /{ | in production in the countries named, 
‘try has : ; i. EELS. ie] and conservation may be expected to in- 
an in fe : : -, : { eae | crease exportable: ‘surpluses, The United _ 
_ but its ine aed 87 ( rack, Hae | States; for instance, is prepared to export 
aardly less Ws By hae *| ; not less than 400,000,000 bushels of | 
elf, and it is’ Peay \ i aeey Seeyiii | wheat or flour from "the 1918 crop, Can-— 
tries of those . EO ey sae Meas anes : ada 80,000,000 bushels, Australia 200,-. 
en devastated PRR ir ed Bape ‘ 4 000,000. bushels (accumulated surplus), 
or relief from ils Rie oes ! twee Shee Argentina 100,000,000 bushels, and India 
1 the effort to — Fe alt an unknown quantity that may reach 
fea, Australia, Jer ok: : : aul 000,000 es: pean: ch eee 
wT BOUTCES 0) ‘ : res 18 over ushe 
th ‘more bread a Harvesting Scene on Long Lake Farm, Near Edmonton. ‘ 7; even approximately correct, these 
tain the farmer — : figures show that the problem is after all 
& ite plenty nor. Table {<Ahibbat and Sources of lotmediats Supply of Wheat one of transportation. Aside from the: - 
i prices that is Countries 17. 4018 fact that a reserve against possible crop 
uch a condition. cae es next year is needed, if all is to 
only the part of © be made safe, there is no reason to doubt 
ee BHO fo. RRR aires Manas Re ae one Uti eRe Shee eae the sufficiency of present stocks of wheat. 


ae oe t— 


vith regard to — + hay as ea on hee re aa Nn ae 840 Big American Increase in Sight — 


breadstufls. : Me This being the case the Canadian 
di Setagind Aes 86000 rari rally copeemol a a ha 
nee iat ag United Bisbee winter whee) 18,077,000 558,724,000 ee eee eee to te bared 
Gh BERD Btn. United States Conng ee Tener ee muvee 232,762,000 342, '860, 000 next oore result in average ot better 
oe iimont ana Pritish Teds oe, eo 1 B16, 200.000 879,829,000  frnua.’ Wor auinediate Sune rapen hy 
secu famine. ~ Epypt or eae es Nae arty ace Bure Reine ae 360 1000 oy ee 000 be sufficient if the situation that is likely 
opposite, declares tints Pte ern race ea tia gos aes aioe Soe ice cit 6'062'000 8 ape 000 to exist on the continent of North America 
one. 0 of transportation aa au eae Hasthidiicn hb eee alo g seca aa RaR REDS aN a ) y shire ‘be incite Le Bees ae 
given ready and eas. : ae winter wheat areas o e Uni 
fnovement of food from Totals Ss EIS, ores U prem eR ire aOR areal isan 1,668,624,000 1,957,266,000 Se beeiapel ons ee wheat, of. over 
isuming countries there 7 9 acres and there is a consider- 
ince oF everyone and a ; ‘Gounteine able sd of Rye, Barley and se es : able ich ie e th at spring seeding in 1919 
a ee , ie Bae, Oe ine es te aoe a ee 
British states- Spain... 0... Cana oe Meee ee st tae -+ 24,208,000 31,853,000 ada should add not less than 16, 000,000. 
e world’s pro- Oech ee ae ay Ten. ERE acres to the total. Under normal weather 
ar grains ia 1018 : ve TO ESoe CORO tae ae Seon ula eee a :§86;000 conditions’ the Diese ene oo will ae the 
co 0M now entirely : : eae ‘ ; greatest ever raised on this continent. 
uvad of United States Totale he SA 88,204,000 118,915,000 Jy quantity these may easil reach 
i declares the wheat al ea, Aa : 3 o 1,500,000,000 bushels or more than one- - 
in shear a ie ape Be RON oe eee ey teu OGRas 77,957,000 - 84,464,000 third’ of the world’s total annual pro- 
Australia, Argentina and ln laud and Wales... ee ae, -.. 46,162,000 50,000,000 duction before the war. The present — 
wn to be overloaded with Tealy Ge ak hee ee ee OB O00, 9,186,000 condition of United States winter pleat 
; Argentina is Catoda CRs ee eak a are Gs i area OBR. O00 83, 263,000 crop is 96 as against a 10-year eit at 
sh lack of ee Ualed Sates a 8 208 aTo.00U 235,830,000 this time of year, of 89. ae 
sAvanted as oe CUE oe ene 95,750,000 76,053,000 Is a Fixed Price Desirable? 
Fact te are for Rit ie ne A ean aha a 13,598,000 9, 870,000 . For the Western Canadian baraer the 
int Of those prores aN a UE Lo ee sae 000 10,426,000 foregoing considerations raise a question __ 
ile Argentina and : ie : eae iakihe sas to what he may expect in the way of 
debe trois tie, needy aS onlay eG ee 513,184,000 569,092,000 price in 1919. Obviously the statistics 
» be much of a factor Ee ! < avor lower figures, yet ‘with the (United 
ie present hunger. sone ; States price already fixed at the war level 
nes rope imported : Se ae Rae nna uk acne pire Pane Wernan acai 31,116,000 29,113,000 of $2.26 he has some right to inquire 


570,0¢ ),000 bushels. of Ena and Wales ee “os. -99h719,000 ~——-—«:124,000/000 what the Canadian government is going 
Jer annum from exporting DAY sean ate a $1,345,000 38,907,000 to do about this business and whether he 
ding 56,000,000 bu shels i Scotland MTP Melee hs Ween) iM asasd Reg aes 49,982,000 53,223,000 is to consider the request to grow wheat 


25,000, "bushel TOFS TVs CO bag OU ees ta nS cee Cate .. 403,010,000 = 456,734,000 as still in effect. If maximum production _ 
d 15,000,000 bushels for TPO MMURLER or rou dn ee aia aes opie i MOB ORO UUs troy 390, 449, 000 is wanted the price should be fixed and ~ 
mount of imported wheat be GAMMA eee ee ee a eA a ON ,761, 1599, guaranteed at United States level; if not, — 


SG there should be frank notice, fo that 
CLOUMIR eC raga ens seen Cone couans ee 23412, 853,000 _ 2,096, 025,000 effect. 


y 
Utne 


Great Britain was over 
i ae These es are 


e Small renee which Converge to Form ane, Canadian aun of the Mighty River 
dines the Measure of the World's Wheat Heed eods? | a eee 


n better ¢ ete 
De inten, peal et 


vember.— 


inton, Alberta. 


Asking that the Dominion govern-— 

- ment appoint a commission to examine 
into the profits of the milling companies 
and make a public report regarding the 
same,—Millet local, Millet, Alberta, — 


ia aoe oo Recommending that ‘the _provinee be. 
ésolved that ne - divided into districts and district con-. 


Ss 0! tha , LOS ORR ARON ASKEG. ck os 
to frame reguilat ventions be arranged on a similar plan —- Resolved that the Small Debts Act ey 
ibit any perso 7 g to Saskatchewan.—Millet local, Millet, be amended to read: ‘‘Any action gi 

upon himself full Canadian citizenship, Alberta. ar : brought under the act shall ‘be taken 
with all its responsibilities, in peace hon Ceo SE ea at the court sitting nearest the last 
or war, from receiving title to any Asking the Dominion government to known address of the debtor.’’—-Wild 
real estate in, Canada, and that before make some tangible recompense for the Rose Local, Youngstown, Alberta. 

being admitted to citizenship a person parents whose sons have been killed in Whereas it is known that the trust 
must \speak and write in the English Hes, DRS) Sa ary ene ER voce ist rn 
~ Janguage.—De Winton local, De Winton, 
RO IDONUR eee ees Mera 

_ Recommending a head tax of $500 


Municipal Hail I 
he Central Board of D: 
issued the following — 

. a0 A. members: 


_.-The Annual Convention —«.—s—s—-—s| i We tha member 


upon enemy aliens entering Canada— : an to advise that the. 
“Earlie local, Earlie, Alberta. “In the official call to the convention issued a short time ago, it’ was surance Act, passed 
ae Oriental Labor announced that an effort was being made to secure special convention rates. | of the Alberta legi 
Whereas this local views with eon- | These were abolished by the Railway War Board during the continuance | result of the work of 
m the ever-increasing number of -of the war. Central office hoped that now the war is over we would have {| for the past six or se 
Chinamen who are arriving in this coun- been able to secure the rates. Effort was made to secure rates and action — making use of 
try, and as they are entering into com- taken through the Canadian Council of Agriculture, but the railways had~ in the hail insur: 
etition with white labor in the various | already declined to accede to the request of the United Farmers of Ontario, | 


. factories, etc., and in view of the fact 
_ that thousands of our boys have gone 

to fight on our behalf to keep this a 
_ white man’s country, and that these It is very important that delegates should remember to ask for a round 
s will soon be returning; ie : trip ticket, A round trip ticket costs one-sixth less than two single tickets, a sd whi: v 
This local resolves that the Minister | and the pool rate will be adjusted on the basis of a round trip fare. Dele- | it, the main thing bei 


whose convention was held in December, and they declined to re-open the 
matter at this time, Accordingly delegates will be required to pay full — 
first-class fare. ‘ Se he oc 


£ Immigration be requested to give gates securing single tickets will lose the difference. Every de “See should | of administration. You w 
is matter closer supervision, also with secure a receipt from the ticket agent for the amount paid. This receipt — pa Gli ay of the hail bo 
Tespect to alien immigration from he will present with his credentials at the convention office when he | of only three-and-a-quarter 
-Burope, and that no railway company registers, This is necessary in order to furnish the data required for the ‘for the year 1918 as against 
be granted permission to engage labor- pooling of the fares of the delegates. If travelling over more than one cent. to ten per 
ers In foreign countries under any con- railway, receipts should’ be secured for each ticket purchased, but no single | panies, and an a 
tions.—Harvest Vale local, Bowell. fare should be purchased, ; eae Tae alee ce -for the entire fi 


ive year 
the present plan of municipal 
‘hasbeen “in force, 
— The weak point in munic 
ance hitherto has been t¢ 


. Land For Soldiers = 
_. Whereas vast areas of land held by 
companies and speculators adjacant to 
the ©.P.R. here are lying vacant, and 
as provision will have to be made for — 
our soldiers on their return who are 
- desirous of going in for farming; 


: Pool. Rate Gikely 816). a 
Credential certificates are being sent to the secretaries, who will furnish 
them to the delegates appointed. They should be made ont and preverly 
signed, before leaving home. Do not ask for standard certificates from the 
ticket agent, as in former years, as they will not be honored by the 
railway companies. In order to properly adjust the pool, it. will be neces- 
v k : : sary for the delegate to present to the convention secretary his ¢redential 
__. Therefore be it resolved that instead card properly filled in, It is estimated that this year the. pool rate will | 
of taking the boys into the inaccessible average approximately $16, and each delegate whose railway fare is less — 
Peace River country, the Dominion |, than this amount will be required to deposit with the convention secretary 
government be petitioned to confiscate - the amount equal to the difference between the actual fare paid for the 
all this land, pay a reasonable price for | round trip and the pool rate. For instance, a delegate whose fare is $12 | 
same, and establish homes for the boys | will, on presentation of his credential certificate to the convention secre- | 
Where they will have a prospect of tary, deposit the sum of $4.00, being the difference between the fare for | 
- @arning ~ a livelihood.— Harvest Vale .. the round trip and the pool rate, : tae nee IBD yee ee. ELIE ASIEN 
_ local, Bowell, Alberta, = (ol ee eo ve Register Tmimediately: On Ariival 6 4 4a, ca. 
«Cost of Farming Those delegates whose round trip fare exceeds the amount of a pool will — 
_ Whereas erroneous statements are be entitled to a refund from the pool. In order to diminish as much a: 
constantly being made in an attempt possible the amount of clerical work in handling credential certificates a 
Pees seg farmers are making in- the delegates come in, those delegates whose round trip fare exceeds the 
ordinate profits 


 Resoved that the governments, Fed- 
eral and provincial, be advised to com- 
_ pile more extensive.data upon the cost 
_ of operating farms, the cost of produc- : ) 
ing various farm products, allowing the - y hi VASiO 
producer proper compensation for his he Hail 


risk, investment and labor, such data Glad to. assist 
_ to. be secured largely from individual, discuss the : 
- farmers.—De Winton local, De Winton, ” a Copenh addresse 
» Alberta. aoe aoe | chairman, Hail 
ee BR. N. W. M. P. |. monton, will +r 
Whereas during several decades the Under separate 
- Royal North-West Mounted Police have : mailing y 
administered law and maintained order |. Le ae with a oa 
to the very general satisfaction of set- en . ee ior eat 0 
* 2 ii 4, Hite 4 f }S an i 


Pe PESTS ANS oe ea a ae 
_. Whereas such duties efficiently per- {| 
_ formed developed confidence on the 
part of the law-abiding citizens, and 
espect for the ae, on the part of those 


_ ¢riminally disposed. Dees. 
_ Resolved 1 governments, Fed- — 
- B.NW.MP. nstated as the active - 

co De Winton — 


dress 306 Bank 


2 4 


ted—a. busi- 


Movement, but it 


an Street,Winnipeg. Thatis your addr 
you want to get in touch with The Guide— 
_ with one exception so far as Manitoba is 
moerned. That is in forwarding material 
Ge ths provincial page. Such matter is 
edited in the Association office, and should 
be addressed to the Secretary, 306 Bank 

of Hamilton Building. Winnipeg, 

Souris District Convention 
Souris District Grain Growers met in 
the Town Hall, Boissevain, on Tuesday 
_ the 17th. Between 40 and 50 were present. 
The president R. F. Chapman in his 
“~aning remarks spoke of the importance 
ization, emphasizing the need of a 
\Soue...anent organizer to create new. locals 


and 


in the local association. 


- ‘ade excepting in the 


_ platform, 
to Bee justice along these lines as to the 


know the 


a Gan ffices and plant at 290 Vaugh-' 
its own. 0 i if 


-each director undertaking 


and the 


sin: 
lt is 
_. There can be little doubt that it is a 


erally, a 0 
- from which many still suffer, a more 
definite recognition of the 


help and social 33 which exists in 
the community” nd _@ strengthened im-— 


_ the minister was entirel 


as to how to maintain activity and interest 
_In the election of officers no change was 
i cep case of the two 
vice-presidents. Two young enthusiasts 
were elected to this position, G. H, Brown 


of Deloraine and Alf. D. Longman of 
Regent, In the evening mecting Miss 
ve a very interesting address on 


Finch | 


the work and aims of the Women’s Section. 
In connection with better rural school 


children’s welfare 
tion of schools, 
‘he problems of the 


done in establishing 
clinics, medical ins 
district nurses, etc. 


tariff, ete., were all included in their 
it was as much to their interest 


men’s. After this W. R. Wood spoke 
along social lines, emphasizing the need of 
educational -work and the enlistment of 
the women and the young pon with 
their energy and optimism and progressive 
spirit. The vast organization and the 
wonderfully detailed propaganda of the 
protectionist interests was described and a 
plea made for organizing and using all 


our strength in the interests of equity 
and a square deal. 


‘Discussion of resolutions followed, in- 


volving such topics as tariffs, street and 
track pri¢e.of wheat, election of district 


director, fee for women members and 
amendment of the constitution. 
brought to an end an enthusiastic meeting 
that augurs well for the future of the 
Grain Growers’ movement in the Soi 
district. : 
Ordering Books 


conditions she mentioned what had been — 


returned soldier and land settlement, 


FW.R. 


The Central Office is glad to notice 


among the evidences of fresh interest in 
the movement and in the study of the 


topics con issued, 8 number of orders 
for books from various associations. — 


Those pi 
should note that orders should be address- 
ed to The 


urposing to order books in future 
Grain Growers’ Guide (Book 


pee) rather than to the central office. — 


this connection it may be noted 


‘that the Keyes local association is setting 


a splendid example. At a recent meeting 
it was decided to undertake the distribu- 
tion of 25 copies of “Deep Furrows,” 
to sell five 
copies. ‘This is good practical missionary 
work and might well be copied by other 
live associations, If a hundred Manitoba 


associations did as Keyes is doing it 


would mean much for the intelligent — 


understanding of the Farmers’ Movement. 
associations contemplating such 
action would do. well to write to The 


special terms. Do it iy: 
Soaking in Democracy — 

_A report from one of our finest country 
communities the other day referred to 
the lifting of the “ban” on public meetin, 
church service held after t 
restrictions were withdrawn, In this 
connection the significant statement was 
made concerning the local minister that 


democracy.” ee : 
a thought provoking vay apepe 

00 
thing for a minister to be soaked in 
democracy. Canadian ministers have been 


increasingly taking that kind of “soak’’ 
“during the 


last 25 or 30 years. If means 
increased prenetie with humanity gen- 
clearer vision of the injustices 


pulse to get into the bamess with the 
common man and help him with his load. 

it should be noted that the reference to 
ly an appreciative 
one. People like the minister to be dem- 
ocratic, to be one of themselves, and the 


lead of his liking. A good many ministers 
in rural districts are 
‘ associating themselves 


i ( ’ b 
with the GGA, and with mutual benefit 
“te themselves and to the organization. 


wers of self 


od 


Grain Growers’ Guide (Book Dept.) for — 
toda; 


he had ‘ ‘evidently been thoroughly soaking - 


-eareful attention to 


~ real live minister is not slow to follow the © 
their “soak in — 


tributions to the district: ,» let 
them feel the responsibility of office, fit — 


: Conducted off icially for the M. anitoba Gra Gees : 
a 0 Association by the Secretary oe 
_W. R. Wood, 306 Bank of Hamilton Bldg., Winnipeg 


Here and there a minister ignores the 
association, never 


minister today is increasingly character- 


ized by social insight and makes the 


association one of the many channels 
through which he seeks to communicate 


of ‘the things that are more excellent’ to 


the community life. And.every local 
G.G.A. should be ready, sympathetically, 
to assist the local minister to secure his 
« ‘soaking in democracy.” 


Leaders of Rural Life 
‘The Theory:—The primary 


lem of leadership. e democracy is 
very impatient of anything wearing the 


of the essentials 


aspect of authority, but Ppl is one 
e true: 
leader of men does not command or drive — 


of progress. 


his fellowmen. He inspires and attracts 


them, and they,because of their confidence — 


‘in him, their assurance of his sincerity 


_ their faith in his power, are 


si ng to 
follow him through all difficulties to the 


goal. Unled, eg Bee there are many 
whose lives would be spent. in a narrow 
circle of insignificant routine, and yet 
through the mighty magic of a noble 
leader’s personality they are transformed, 
they. become great of soul, citizens, 
philanthropists, heroes, ; 
_ Perhaps there may seem some truth 
in the statement that leaders are born 
rather than made. But it is certainly 
true that practically every communit; 
has some people that might be develo 

into lead 
vironment and encouraging 


conditions. 


And no less certain is it that for lack of 


such stimulation there are many whose 


‘natural capacity for leadership has been 


ressed and wasted where otherwise it 


re 
might have blessed the whole community. if 


democracy is to be effective it must 


“provide the environment which is favor- 
‘able to the development of leaders. It 


must take thought for conserving the 
natural talents of individuals, for encour- 
aging their development and exercise, and 
for providing as far as possible one 
opportunity for all to prove themselves 
worthy that men should follow their 
lead. Our movement is one that is 
essentially democratic is called to give 
seta attention to the problem of the 
evelopment of leaders for rural life. 

The association that is not purposefully 
endeavoring to train some of its young 
ple for service and for leadership is 


ignoring one of the’ most fruitful lines of 


activity that a local crganization may 


undertake. : 
The Practical Application:—Get A hie 
young people into the harness. Make 


them captains in a membership contest. 
Set them as rival leaders in debate, call - 
them to propose and speak to a resolution, 
elect them to represent your association — 


in visiting a sister organization, 
them in your ‘‘double-six paniualttee" 
urge them to take in‘the annual provincial 
convention, dually work them into 
campaign activities, call on them for con- 
district program 


them as far as they can be fitted for service 
in the community, in the district and in 


the wider fields of provincial and national 
i Get it clearly into your © 


organization. G pyc 
thought as Grain Growers that if the 


organization is to be permanently strong. 


and effective, it must give definite an 


“growing its leaders.” 
The Keystone of Success — 


‘The stability and the permanency of 
‘ ba baa es 


the arch depend upon the 
The farmers’ movement in Western 
Canada has grown to an arch of majestic 
proportions. It is to be, we trust, the 
arch of entry into a new and more fully 
vitalized rural life. As an agrarian 
movement, it is the simple truth to vee 
it, that it is without a parallel in the his- 
oy of mankind. The keystone of that 
arch has alwa telligent 

and practical knowledge of conditions on 
the part of the average man. The organ- 


ation, 1 eams of getting into 
touch with it, but the average: western 


pe 
; Pad bak cares. In summer the short seaso 
: roblem - 
of democracy is very frequently the prob- 


farmer n c ep himeel ae 
alive to world conditions and world oe : 
e 


ers by securing favorable en- 


‘demagogues — but true-hearted, clear: 


- ance? Do 
- necessity? 


> : : people Wil 
“measure up to the demand of the new time, oe 


_ dations of democracy” in this great 
In the reconstruction period which now — : . 


the problem of © 


ever 
‘selfish class. 


been intelligent alertness 


merce, finance, farming; all are on a differ- 
ent plane, and involved in inter-relation-— 
ships and intricacies which are often 

srplexing. The farmer has a thousand - 


rushes him from dawn to dark. In winter 
there are the stock and the daily round 
of chores. Thefarmerisdirectand matter _ 
of fact. The searching out of involved _ 
relationships does not appeal to him. 
He is likely. in these days to yield tothe 
inclination to simply as he says, “Stay 
by his job’ and leave the connection of 
his business with other businesses for 
others to unravel. aor 
_And yet the practical understanding of 
his place and the place of his vocation in 
‘the world series is primarily essential if —__ 
he would not be over-reached and victim- 
ized. ‘There are ‘still those who craftily 
wait to exploit him and whose plans are 
deep laid and carefully devised. To meet 
unscrupulous competitors, as well as to _ 


- develop and enrich his own life asa citizen 
above the plane of mere materializm, the 


eeds to keep himself actively 


‘penings. It is a time when care must 


taken to maintaining, strong, solid and 
secure, the keystone of the arch. ee 


‘For this necessity the chief requirement _ 
is leadership in the rural community. 
Leaders are needed—not bosses, not 


headed strong-willed men—young men, 
possible—in any case, men whose minds 
are young, forward-looking, optimistic, 
confident, capable—and above all, men 
who have the will to serve, becatise they 
love their fellowmen. It is in the hope 
that you and others to whom these words - 
come may hear in them the imperative 
call to this kind of service that they are 


written, = 1a ls . 
_ It should be clearly understood that the —_ 
call is not a manoeuvre of subtle flattery —_ 
or a call to some distinctive position. 
It is, on the other hand, a call to 
hard and earnest work—first, in 
patient — penal gael and self-develop- _ 
ment; and, second, in attempting the often — 
difficult and Giosartip gins task of leadin; 
one’s neighbors to fuller social and civic — 
life. Have you the patience and persever 
a recognize a us eh ig 
z ill you res d “Stay a 
with the job?” gen Ae Se oy 
- Your reward will be—that ana baer oe 


will be maintained. The 


‘The movement will continue to clevate 
and improve life and as it has been 
doing in the past—to “buttress the foun- 


Westland, 


at large are more aw: 
Ree. 5 ‘The 

e 60 if ” 
Will you be 
bearer among the people? 


be Office, 
ee Moustienens 1 stecge He 


- Directors’ Meeting — 
By d RB. Musselman 
4 FULL meeting of the Board of 
. Directors was held at the Central 
ina, on December 12 
essrs. Penny of No. 7 
Davies of No. 11 and Burton of 
No. 14, being absent from unavoidable 
causes. : ae 
-< The meeting proved one of the moat 
-earnest and interesting that the secretary 


The general management of the affairs 


has ever had the privilege of attending. - 


of the association are entrusted ay f e 
as 


_ board to the central executive, whic 
wide powers under the constitution 
_ full board which consists of 23 members, 


the 


not finding it possible to meet with any 
frequency. ‘There was, therefore, a very 
large number of matters claiming its at- 
tention, ‘ 

One of the most important matters 


_ brought before the board concerned recent 


- in connection wit 


decisions by the Buprorae Court of Canada 
two cases between 

farmers and implement companies, which 
the association’s legal bureau had been 
conducting. The importance of these 
decisions lies in the fact that they establish 


that an implement company, having sold 


an engine stated to be of a certain horse 
ower, can be held liable if such engine 
ails to develop its rated power, and also 
that the term of the notice fixed in the 
Saskatchewan legal form of implement 
sale agreement, which requires a purchaser 
to give notice of rejection within 10 days 


- of receipt of the engine, does not apply 


to the question of the engine’s power 


- capacity, These are amongst the most 


important decisions secured in any 
cases handled by the legal bureau, 


and at an early date, will be dealt 


with more fully in an article for publica- 


tion. So important do the implement 
companies consider the above decision, 


- that one of the cases in question has been 
me Ean by. them to the Privy Council 
in 


(i 


ngland. By an unanimous decision, the 


_ directors voted to defend this appeal, and 


to fight the case to the last possible 


tribunal, being persuaded that the farmers 


of this province will readily contribute 


‘ately, clause by clause, and adopted sar 
- without a dissenting vote. They also in- 


funds. 


the necessar. : 
discussed the revised Farm- 


The bo: ‘ } 
ers’ Platform thoroughly and dispassion- 
same 


structed the secretary to urge all our 


locals and members to thoroughly examine 


each of the clauses, so that all delegates 
may come to the big February convention 
prepared to deal intelligently with them. 

There was a long and earnest discussion 
peciiciieted in by every member present, 
as to what action, if any, the association as 
@ body should take to ensure the election 
of candidates to Parliament who can be 
depended upon to use their utmost en- 
deavors to bring about legislation giving 


effect to the platform. No definite action 


was taken, it being felt that a matter so 
vital to the interests of the association, 
and indeed, of the nation as a whole, 
“must be decided by the general conven~ 


tion, 
Practically all the district directors were 


of the opinion that no district meetings - 


‘should be held this year on account of 
the lamentable prevalence of the influenza 
epidemic in many rural communities. 
fe.Jt was decided that the saps conven- 
tion, to be held probably the second week 

in February, is to convene at Regina, it 


being well understood that the general 


points within the province, 
this action, to be considered to have 


policy of moving the convention to various 
i is not, by 
been 


abandoned, and that holding the conven- 
tion in Regina, where it was held last year, 
is a concession to the management, who 
made the recommendation because of the 
extensive interference with the work at 


- the head office occasioned by the influenza 


e 
4 


jidemic. It was reported at the time 
at fully one-third of the staff was off 
luty from this cause. : 

The board decided by unanimous vote, 
to press upon the Saskatchewan Govern- 


~ 


ment, the demand of last year’s conven- _ 


tion dealing with the foreign language 
question in our public schools. 
Director Thomas Sales and_ secretary 
‘Musselman were appointed official dele- 
gates to represent the Association at the 
sah sa in Manitoba and Alberta 
respectively. : 
President J. A. Maharg reported that he 


had been appointed, on the recommen- 


ar 


“dation of the Canadian Council of Agricul- 
ture, to go to Europe as a member of the 


Canadian Trade Mission, and that these — 


duties would very likely make it impossible 


Revised Farmers’ Platform 
Suggestive Studies for Winter Meetings—By F. B’Musselman 


In view of the revision of the Farmers’ Platform by the Canadian Council of 
Agriculture and its unanimous endorsation a few days ago by the full board of 
directors of the Saskatchewan Grain Growers’ Association, it has been considered 
advisable that the same should be submitted with the least possible delay to 
the various locals for their consideration. As a means to this end the ae blak 
m. for study has been arranged, to be followed by a series o 

; or the guidance of locals in their study and discussion of the 
planks in the platform. The articles will appear in the same order as outlined in 


suggestive pro. 
short eens 


the following program. 


In view of the fact that the revised platform and the relationship of the as- 

ractical adoption will be one of the most important matters 

convention in Regina during the month of February, it is im- 

portant that the various planks should be fully understood by the various dele- 

gates attending, and with a view to assisting in this result the above mentioned 

articles are being produced, the first of which follows the suggestive program. 
Arrangements should be made well ahead for ten-minute aaa 

-on each subdivision; the whole to be followed by a free discussion, or a round table. 

Short reports of these meetings should be sent to the 

know what you are doing. 

Study No. 1—The Returned Soldier 

What does the returned soldier want? 

What is practicable to do for him? 

Do 105,000 returned men really want to farm? 

What assistance is feasible to soldiers desiring to farm? 

Colony settlement vs. mixed settlement. 

Foreing idle land into the market. 


Study No. 2—Labor and Unemployment 


: Unemployment is a national crime. 
Stimulated productive employment vs. stimulated urban and municipal 


sociation to its Pp 
before the annua 


so that others may 


improvements. 


1. Its effect upon relat 
3. Its effect upon nationa 


Unimproved land value tax. 
Income tax. 
Inheritance tax. 

Business profits tax. 


Should the senate be abolish 


Publicity of ownership of 


Explanation of method. 
Under the present 


Pro 


What it means. 
How: ‘Initiative’ works. 
How ‘‘Referendum” works. 
How ‘Recall’ works. 
Countries in which it has 


Is it enough to study and 
the lines demanded by plat 


upon for such peenee 
Should the Grain 
by direct political action? 
How would such action 
If direct political action s 
should it be financed? 


Conducted Officially for the Saskatchewan : or 
—— Growers’ Association by the Secretary = 
J. B. Musselman, Regina, Sask. | 


Can Canada compete industrially? 

- Can Canada compete agriculturally? : 
Is co-operative merchandising sound nationally? z 
Is labor benefitted by useless creation of labor? 

Is labor benefitted by restricting individual output? 
Study No. 3—The Protective Tariff 
Its cost and value to the nation. 

2. Its effect upon the cost of production; 

: evelopment and international relationships 

What industries, in themselves not et npn is the nation justified 
in assisting and how should it be done 


' Study No. 4—Direct Taxation 


Study No. 5—Safeguards of Democracy _ 
Repeal “of War Times Election’s Act. 
Is the granting of titles a cone to Canadian democracy? 
or made elective? : 
Danger of Government by. order-in-council. 
Complete abolition of patronage system. 
i Auiageaenn ae slut seenpegn Shae 
ress censorship and freedom of speech, 
daily press and periodicals. tan, Aesostation: 


Study No. 6—Proportional Representation 


Countries in which it has been adopted and its effects. i 
e | : hie does the majority always control? 
Can the nation afford to deny 49% of electors a voice in the government? 
rtional representation would kill ge ag 
Under proportional representation will Parliament represent the people, 
instead of only a portion, as at present? 


Study No. 7—Direct Legislation 


h been adopted and its effects. 
Is not representative government the 
Would Direct Legislation purify; and 


Study No. 8—Direct Political Action 
shout iviaee asking for legislation along 
‘orm 


Are the existing machine-controlled political parties to be depended 
rowers’ Associations back up its political platform 


erally effect the association? 
ould be decided upon by the convention, how 


Continued on Page 14 


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rowers |& 


for him to be in attendance at the annual 
convention. Vice-president A. G. Hawkes 
will, therefore, in all probability, be the | 
acting president during the big meeting 


_ Scarcity of tata gs 
winter isa serious handicap 
to many farmers. A 

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for samples 


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Pure-bred Suffolk Sheep, from Imy 
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, ||| Wants Holsteins 


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are in a similar condition. 


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- IF YOU CAN’T BUY A HERD | 
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Information from the Holsteir : 

: President: - : 

DR. S. F. TOLMIE, M.P., Victoria, 

Secretary: ~ es 

W. A. CLEMONS, st. George, 01 


rrymandering. 


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est for a democracy? 
“Ro so in what way? 


Highest Grade Steam Goal 
- Produced in Canada 


2 ae 300,000 will return from: Europe 
‘anada, 
probably eighteen months after peace is declared. Probably 80,000 will have 
een incapacitated; half of them seriously. — ee ae : 
(a) A card census taken overseas showed that approximately 1 
expressed themselves as desirous of engaging in agriculture. Great War Veteran 
officials state that there was a general impression amongst the soldiers that they 
were to receive 160 acres of land as well as a grant of $2,500; instead of a loan, 
' repayable with interest, as the act provides. = Res 
Some returned men will want the impossible; but the majority only demand a _ 
fair opportunity to quickly return to civil life, with chances equal to the rest, . 


.. Approximately 150 leave 


‘ 


for earning a comfortable living. 


Banking by Mail 


This Bank is interested in 
man and 
farmer in this community, no 
matter how small his opera- 


Write to-day. 


Address giving 


every business 


tions. 


positor and 
Bank. 


you. 


Winnipeg - Man. 


i 


WRITE FOR PARTICULARS 


Bank of Hamilton 


«© A Bank for your Savings’’ 


If at present you have limited 
means, but character and hustle, 
we want to’ have you as a de 
customer of this 
Our system of Banking 
‘by Mail makes this possible for 


(b) Whatever assistance is given the farmer-soldier must also be available 
for the others. To tempt men to go farming for the sake of the assistance 
offered, were to lead men into failure. Eighty per cent. of the free homesteads — 
granted are not now in possession of the origina homesteaders. Few except. 
those bred to the land will make successful farmers. Frequently the greater 
the assistance the greater the failure. Does artificial stimulation of an industry 
lead ultimately to success or failure? Should idle prairie lands in settled districts - 
be purchased by the government and re-sold to returned soldiers on easy terms? 
And if so what steps should be taken to prevent the’ inflation of farm lands? 

Will the returned men thus placed on the land be satisfied to remain when wheat 
is seventy-five cents per bushel and they have to pay a tribute of $200 per year. 
to Canadian manufacturers? eae ‘ 

Can small tradesmen be assisted back into business? Should carpenters, 
blacksmiths, bakers, dentists, etc., be reinstated in their trade or profession, 
with an outfit at the public expense? Should the lawyer be equipped with books; - 
the plumber with tools; the surveyor with instruments; the pedlar with a wagon; 
the drayman with a team; the gardener with seeds; the apprentice with technical 
training and the university student with a completed course at the expense of the 
public? These and more were sacrificed freely, or by compulsion, for the public 

ood. ; 
. (c) , When returned men learn that free land is available only in remote and 
undesirable districts and that any money advanced must be repaid the 105,000 
will shrink greatly. When they learn that desirable prairie, well located, will 
cost $25 per acre and another $15 per acre in interest, cost of breaking, building, 
etc., and that only the exceptional homesteader succeeded in making a living 
on the land he obtained for nothing, the number will grow smaller. : 

(d) To soldiers who really belong to the land by training and experience, 
assistance by way of loans on easy terms of repayment would be a real help. . 


Others should be given loans only after making good while working for hire; | 


or when, having the backing of neighboring farmers. Two or three neighboring 
farmers, aoe responsibility for such a man could be of tremendous service 
to the soldier farmer and find themselves perfectly safe. Why should not the 
Grain Growers’ Association organize a movement of this kind? et 
(e) Some claim that soldiers, who desire to farm, should be settled in com- 
munities by themselves, on some kind of co-operative basis. Others suggest - 
that they should be scattered amongst settled farmers, where they will have the 
advantage of their example and counsel, ; : 
(f) With thirty Pe cent. of the most valuable arable lands of the prairie 
provinces, in some districts, in the hands of speculators and out of cultivation, 
should legislation be adopted by the federal government, with a view to making 
‘these lands available for settlement by the returned soldier. Should owners 
of unoccupied land be permitted to set their own valuations, in the event of their 
lands being taken over by the federal government? . What principles should be 
adopted to determine the value of such lands?” Would the government be justi-. 


,000 did no os 
he latter can be demobilized rapidly; but the former will require | 


5,000 soldiers} 


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Canadian Wool Sold by Boston 


fied in fixing a maximum price per acre on lands held for speculative purposes? 
Is the appointment of a land settlement commission a solution? 


Co-operative Wool Growers Exported 1,500,000 /bs.—Government 
Contracts Cancelled—Peace Brings Weaker 
Market—By Lloyd Moore 


*‘ Conservative figtres on the wool 
clip for the past year are given ~ 


URING 1918, wool production in 
D Canada was at a new high level. 


: as 12,000,000 pounds, which is 
estimated to be approximately 500,000 
pounds more than for 1917. The re- 


-markable rise in prices induced farmers 


to increase their flocks. Producers re- 
ceived a high average price in Western 
Canada. While most of the wool-pro- 


ducing countries were governed by the 


issue prices fixed by Great Britain, the 
market level decided upon by the 


United States government, was about , 


30 per cent. higher, and since the Cana- 


‘dian eae were based on the American, 


Canadian wool brought prices that were 
exceeded nowhere in the world. Dealers 
were caught at the end of hostilities 
on November 11 with large stocks of 
high-priced wool on their hands, and 


the sharp readjustment of values forced © 


by the cancellation of government. or- 


ders, both in the United States and. 


Canada, caused depreciation in market 
prices, ‘ Be 

Marketing conditions in the early 
part of the year seemed to justify 
holding stocks of wool for speculative 
purposes. Manufacturers had exhausted 
their supplies of Australian wool and 
were forced to pay high prices for the 
domestic product. This made dealers 
anxious to purchase heavily in 1918. 


The fact that large sums were realized 
through the 1917 rise in prices induced 


them to gamble on a recurrence of 


these conditions. The growing tendency 


towards co-operative methods of selling 
wool also aroused opposition on the 
part of dealers, and there was, as a 


consequence, spirited competition for 
the 1918 clip. : 

The placing of contracts in Canada 
by the United States government 
created a demand for wool in the do- 
mestic market, and this was especially 
keen during May, June and the early 
part of July, when the first arrivals of 
Canada’s allotment of 45,000 bales of 
Australian wool began to come forward. 
The fact that the wool from the anti- 
podes was much cheaper than the do- 
mestie wool caused manufacturers to — 
buy the former product, to the com- 
parative neglect of the latter. 


Co-operative Company Got 40% of Clips 
_ Shipments to the Canadian Wool 
Growers’ Association amounted to over 
4,000,000 pounds, or about 40 per ¢ent. 
of the entire clip. The co-operative 
wool growers being interested in. get- 
ting the wool off their hands with a 
minimum of delay, to escape undue 
carrying charges while favorable con- — 
ditions prevailed in the market, gold 
freely to Canadian manufacturers and 
“were able to dispose of a large part of 


the wool most suited to the domestic — 


mills. There was, however, a consider- 
able. surplus on hand after the arrival 
of the first Australasian shipments, and 
with the prospect of having to carry 
this for some time, they immediately 
took measures to secure export licenses _ 
after exhausting all means of market-— 
ing within the Dominion. © 


Hxportation to the Boston market in. 


volved the acceptance of a somewhat 
lower price than would be secured if 


it had been possible to market the wool 


in Canada. The wool had to be held at 


pation of a shortage in the late winter 
and spring of next year, and a conse- 
quent rise in prices, the co-operative 
organization disposed of $3,000,000 


worth of wool and had only $22,000 


worth left on their hands when the 
armistice was signed. This c¢ireum- 
stance was exceedingly fortunate for 
the western wool growers who had mar- 
keted their wool through this channel. 


he ‘Effect of Peace on Markets — 
The coming of peace completely 
altered conditions in the wool market. 
United States contracts in Canada for 
‘woollen goods were cancelled, and the 
issuance of licenses for the importation 
of wool into the American market 
was stopped immediately. The Ameri- 
ean government had control of prac- 


- Changes in Stockyard Regulations 
Livestock Men Put Through Important Regulations 


“ENHE producer, the stockyards, and 
the packer were all well represented 


Ais at an important meeting in 
4 Winnipeg, December 20, called by 
: il, the Livestock Commis- 
‘sioner, Ottawa, to discuss the draft of 


Mr. Arke 


rules and regulations for stockyards. 
The representatives of the farmers’ 
organization were well satisfied when they 
succeeded in having the clause passed 
requiring the price of every animal to 
appear onthe scale ticket. The com- 
mission men objected very strongly to 
‘thus opening up their business, but the 
majority of those present considered that 
prices should not be concealed. : 
The clause in the stockyards’ regula- 


lations, which proved the most conten-* 


tious, reads “No commission merchant 
shall advance money or give gent, 


> directly or indirectly, to any person or 


firm to enable such person or firm to 
speculate in livestock which has been con- 
signed for sale to the side commission 
firm.” It seems that in the Winnipeg 
ep a number of traders are being 
financed by commission firms and some 
strong arguments were put up in favor of 


the eae but in the end the clause | 


~ stood as read. In the course of the dis- 
cussion it came out that the St. Paul 
stockyards had an even more stringent 

rule along this line. x 

: Feeding Rations 
» Mr. Fletcher from Toronto stated that 
_ the five-pound maintenance ration of 
grain for hogs had been ‘ound satisfactory 
on that market and had resulted in a heavy 
saving of feed. It was pointed out that 
- eonditions were different in the West 
owing fy the long haul and consequent 
greater’ hunger of the animals. ter 
some further discussion a motion endorsin, 
the need of continued conservation 0} 
_. food at stockyards was passed. 

‘The last two months in the big stock- 
yards have seen serious Nate of 
stock, especially at week ends when fre- 
'  quentlY the packers can only absorb a 


limited number of the more desirable’ 


sind of cattle. Although the market: has 
been bearing up strongly under the pres- 
sure, everyone felt that some steps should 


less wool will be needed by the mills 


. worked off, a steady market for the 


- $125 to $150, and no bull is aecepted 
~ for sale that is inferior in breeding | 


“government wool only, The general | 


‘and a readjustment of prices here has 


‘fee from $12 to $10, an 


_ Australian wool was off ten per ¢ 


from the American government, 
tices. “There was little demand for 

ow South American and he 9 wool, | 
and the domestic wool was 15 to 20 

per cent. off, with May offerings being 
withdrawn. It is noteworthy that the 
options are comprised of American 


result of the auction is viewed as satis- a . Mee ie ye 
factory. The government holdings Guaranteed to Heal 
amount to 325,000,000 pounds. 


The Canadian market is closely de- : Galls While They Work | 


pendent on that of the United States, Sweat and chafing catse galls. Make a horse aden) hold he: 
pal Maced lt abet iM sural mare: With the purities from sores 

qusc, nstea i ‘and I i 

them—and you have a colar that puts aed a 


to galls. That’s just what has been accomy Open at the ne Throa' t 


become necessary. Stocks of Australian — 
wools in manufacturers’ hands are 
ample, and the present outlook is for 
‘an actual surplus of merinos. Stoppage | 
of government business has meant that | 


plished in the — 


and the supply of the imported woo 
will be more than sufficient to meet 
needs until next year’s clip is marketed. 
Under these conditions, the expeditious 
marketing of wool in the United States 
has worked out to the distinct advan- 
tage of the growers, since large stocks 
would otherwise have been left on their 
hands and would have involved a heavy 
financial loss. : 

The future of the wool-producing in- 
dustry in Canada is far from discourag- 
ing, however. When surplus stocks are 


it on the horse with sorest should 
; it fails to heal, return collar an 
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been demonstrated that, much Cana- 
dian wool is suitable for the mills of 
this country. The pasture lands of the 
Dominion are able to maintain many 
times the present sheep population of | 
something over 2,000,000, and as in 
previous years, sheep-growing will con- - 
‘tinue to be one of the most remunera- 
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be taken to prevent the inevitable ham- 
mering down of prices by such gluts. 
The establishing of shipping zones about 
the market centres with certain districts 
shipping on certain days, would help to 
steady the flow and maintain more uni- 
‘form prices. Toronto is already establish- 
ing the system. 
. Low Prices on Sows 
Percival Baker of Ponoko, representin 
the U.F.A., spoke on the practice o 
making heavy cuts on the sows and the 
serious loss it was to the hog raisers. 
He pointed out that the climatic condi- | 
tions in Northern Alberta made it unwise 
to attempt two litters per year, therefore 
the hog men found it better to fatten and 
sell the sows as soon as they had weaned 
their first litter. "These sows had to be 
marketed and the cut had been 3 cents. 
Mr. Barr of the Swift Canadian explained 
what the packers were up against. The 
ego pene ae Nias Gearon : 
a Wiltshire side over a certain weight and “Glenc: 4 Peace in Rens ‘hie 
for heavy ouwa Kad toute pis ib was (Th coMenlea cutee fame a Ne reais amon 
Glencarnock Angus Sale to \\. E. Scripps, Detroit, and will be sh 
Chicago International this month, he te 


necessary to seek a market in the United 
States because Canadians are all trained, 
to the lean bacon. It was suggested by — 
the commissioner that the grain growers 
and the packers get together and go into 
the whole matter of cuts for off weights 
and see if an equitable solution could not 
oe ‘This was agreed to from both 
sides. foe 


In. order to distribute Aberdeen-Angus Females to every corner of Wes 
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Thirty young pure-bred Aberdeen-Angus cows at $300 to $350 each, E 
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Jas. D. ‘McGregor, Brando 


Cattle Breeders’ Meeting 

There was a splendid turn-out of 
members of the Cattle Breeders’ Ex- 
ecutive on December 20, at Brandon, 
with Mr Harding, the president, in the 
chair. The bull sales in the spring of © 
1918 had been well patronized and an 
average price of $253 was obtained for 
them. The rules for this year were re- 
vised somewhat, reducing the entrance 
on bulls ‘sel- 
ling for more than $200 there will be 
-a rebate of one and one-half per cent. 
on all realized over the $200 minimum 
basis. The upset price was raised from 


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the upset price may be offered for sale 
by auction or privately at the close of | | 
the association sale, but must not be |: 
considered as sold by the association. 


Tt is very evident that the primar. 


ambition of the Manitoba cattle breed-— 


érs is to improve cattle. AY 
Mr. W. H. English, of Harding, is 


reparing a splendid herd of Short-— 
orns for dispersal at Brandon, in a - 


sale immediately after the ‘association 
sale. His animals will be fit from first 


_ to last and should offer a splendid op- 


portunity for western breeders to secure 
pvood foundation stock females bred 
right at the right time of the year, 
James T. Moffat, of Carrol, will offer 
a high-class string of Herefords, mostly 


females, for sale just after the asso-— 


ciation sale. His bulls will be offered 
in the regular way at the bull sales, 
On account of the various” opinions 
on the relative values of roots and 
silage and costs in harvesting same, Mr. 
MeKillican consented to give an ar- 


ticle at the annual meeting on January — 


6. Other subjects chosen to complete 
the interesting program were ‘‘Re- 
sults of Good Sires as seen in Cattle 
on the market,’’? by the best market 
man available, and ‘‘Their Importance 
to the. Breeder,’’ by an experienced 
breeder of note. 


Swine Breeders’ Meeting 


The swine breeders’ met on Friday 
morning, with N. Agnew, vice- 
president, in the ehair. The splendid 
success of last year’s sale of swine at 


the winter fair, when 16 sows aver- ~ 


aged $86, constituted sufficient en- 
couragement to repeat the undertaking 
this. year. Pure-bred sows qualifying 
to a certain standard and bred to good 
sires will be eligible for the sale, with 
entries limited to a total of 50. The 
entries can only be made by Manitoba 
breeders. It was decided to hold the 
annual meeting on January 7, when the 
best authorities obtainable will be 
asked to speak on ‘‘When and How to 
Market Swine,’’ ‘and ‘‘Benefits De- 
rived by Sale of Pure-bred Stock,’’ or 
some kindred subjects. 


The Horse Breeders 


Owing to the influenza there hs not 
a full meeting of the horse breeders, 
but those present strongly urged for 
a stronger organized effort to get a 
fair share of the European demand of 
good, big horses, which members 
thought were quite plentiful in Mani- 
toba and the Brandon district particu- 
larly, They made a strong appeal for 
securing a competent government au- 
thority to take up the question of just 


‘how horse breeders should prepare and 


how Canada should get her fair share 
of business in horse exportation. 


Sheep Breeders 
The Association of Sheep Breeders, 
under the presidency of T. Jasper, Hiar- 
ding, was found to be flourishing 


indeed. The principal subject under — 


discussion was the wool situation. Co- 
operative wool marketing is to be made 
the big feature at the annual meeting. 


Annual Meetings 


The annual joint meeting of breeders 
will be held on Tuesday, January 7, 
when the best speakers obtainable will 
be asked to handle the subjects, ‘‘The 
Reconstruction Period and How ‘The 
Livestock Men Can Meet It,?? and 
‘*How can Canada Secure Her Fair 
Share of the Huropean Market??? ‘The 
Interdependence of the Transportation 
a and the Producer,’’ by Mr. 
D.C. Coleman, vice-president of the 
C.P.R, and others, The meeting with 
the grain growers on Wednesday, Janu- 
ary 8, will be addressed by Mr. Prout, 
of the grain growers, on the subject 
of ‘‘Rural Credits,’’ and by Mr. Max- 
well, for the Great War Veterans, as 
well as by some of our leading legis- 
lators and famous. breeders, 

W. I, Smale acts as secretary of all 


the livestock -associations “and exhibi- | 


tions centred in Brandon, and is respon- 


sible to a great extent for their success. | 


In Livestock Circles © 


Winnipeg Dairy Show 
The 33rd annual convention of the Mani- 
toba Dairy Association will be held in 
Winnipeg, February 17 to 241. Professor 
R. W. Washburn, of the University of 
Minnisota, a high authority on the food 
value of milk and other dairy products, 


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press, charges paid, with full directions for 
its use, (287%" Send for descriptive circulars, 
testinionials, etc, . Address— 


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bunch of stuff I ever raised. $20 up. |. 
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Topnotch Berkshire Boars “isis 
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fellow’' 49984, {arrowed April 4, 1918, price the 
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all good individuals. fit. for service. Also 
very fine gilts at reasonable prices. Our 
herd at present is in first-class condition 
having kept eid but our best. individ- 
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DAVID LAMBERTON, Secretary 
cheron erse, Ononeny: Drmitone 


ae 


: L ‘January Ay 1919 


will, be. one of the. principal speakers: , 


Hugh G. Van Pelt of Waterloo, Iowa, a 

ut Aiea ie ome uae 
-addre © convention w to 
Judge a Dairy Cow.” — caied es : 


- Other prominent speakers will be Geo 


H. Barr, chief of the dairy division, Ottawa; 
K. G. MeKay, professor of 4 ng for 
Saskatchewan, and G, Marker, ry com- 


“Tnissioner of Alberta, : 

‘che Western Canada Ice Cream Manu- 
_ facturers’ Association will hold their ses- 
‘sions during the show period. Further 
» details in connection with the Western 


Exécutive of the National Dairy Council, 


recently in conference at Ottawa, will also 
be taken up by the different committees 
and settled at this time, The principal 
parts of. the program have already been 
completed. 


Angus for Alberta. 

Admirers of Aberdeen-Angus cattle will be 
interested to learn of the purchase made 
-by L, H. Newville, Wetaskiwin, Alta., from 
the herd of W. Williams, Clark, Nebraska. 
The lot consists of seven richly bred cows 
with calves at foot, headed by a two-year- 
old ‘Trojan Erica” bull. The cows belong 
to “K. Prides” and “Trojan Erica’’ families 
and were some of the best in the Williams 
herd. The bull is an excellent individual, 
his egrandsire was “Earl Erica of Ballind- 
doch,‘ a first prize-winner at the Perth 
show and sale of 1906, and imported that 
year by Chas. Escher, of lowa. This herd 
18 an asset to ‘Western Canada, and Mr. 
Newville is to be congratulated upon the 
selection of such a valuable lot of cattle. 
This 1s just another indication that. the 
farmers of the prairie provinces have faith 
in the future development of the livestock 
in this country. | ‘ 


@ood Yorkshire Offering 


Philip. Leech, of Baring, Sask., writes 
he has had a most successful season with 
his herd of Yorkshires, winning no less 
than 70 prizes at the large summer fairs, 
His herd boar was purchased from the 
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 
and. is by ‘Long Jack,” dam “Blond Fame,” 
two Yorkshires hard to beat. His stock has 
been sent to the Eastern Province as well 
as to the far West, and has been entirely 
satisfactory to 99 per cent, of the mail 
order buyers. His’ young sow, ‘Baring 
Beauty” has won four championships, 
42 first prizes, two seconds and helped to 
win three $25 specials. 


The Victory International 
Continued from Page 10 


eater 129th,’’ the junior champion 
bull, went to the top of his class easily, 
and the real work of Judge Good came 
in placing those farther down the line. 
“<Tippecanoe’s Ideal,’’? shown by John 
W. Van Natta, of Lafayette, and ‘‘Bon- 
nie J,’’ belonging to B. EB. Mack & Son, 
of Thomasville, Ga., each made a strong 
bid for third place, the Georgia bull 
finally winning out. 

In the junior yearling class in which 
20 animals were shown, Collicut was 
fourth on *‘Gay Lad 6th,’’ and sixth 
on '*Gay Lad 64th.’’ 


Aberdeen - Angus 


The Aberdeen-Angus breeders put up 
a memorable fight, and one of the most 
unexpected things was the showing 
made by the bull ‘‘ Evenest of Bleaton’’ 
(imp.) This animal, shown by ©. W. 
Eckardt, of New York City, carried 


‘away honors quite readily in the aged- 


elass, and then was forced to battle 
for the senior championship against 
‘*Wnlate,’? the wonderful prize-wining 
two-year-old of Escher & Ryan’s. The 
latter is a more massive bull, weighing 
around 2,250 pounds as against the 
lighter weight of the other bull. His 
fleshing was thicker, but he was not 
quite so firm, and at times it could 
be noticed that his back drooped a little. 
The character of the head of ‘‘Even- 
est,’? his straighter top, and strong 
erops, coupled with a certain trimness 
won for him the fight. He then met 
Escher & Ryan’s ‘‘Bar Marshall,’’ a 
splendid well developed senior yearling 
for grand championship, and wrested 
the laurels from him. 


Clydesdales Not Out in Strength 


One must admit that the Clydesdale 
show at Chicago, was a good deal of a 
disappointment. Turning from © the 
magnificient array of superb cattle it 
was natural to expect that the shosy 
of the great Scotch drafter would be 
in keeping with the high standard 
whieh was set, and which in many cases 
finds its full complement in good horse 
flech. It is not to be inferred that 
the Clydesdale show lacked individual 
merit, there were a lot of good horses, 


but not by any means in the number ex-— 


ected at such a show as the Chicago 
International. It is affirmed that better 
shows of good. Clydesdales were seeu 
_ at the majority of the big western 
fairs, in Canada last summer, than was 
seen at Chicago, and many of the prize- 


sok 


cattle, 


on February 1st, or so 


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Accurate Tests of Western Oats 
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Seed that matures under favorable 
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Every precaution is taken to ensure ac- 
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requiring twelve more days, must be 
made. If you are in doubt as to the vital- 
ity of your seed grain, mail us samples 
at least six weeks, and preferably two 
months before seeding. Unless your 
grain gives an exceptionally high test 
in a few days it will be almost three 
weeks before you can expect a reliable 
result. If the test shows your grain 
to be low in vitality you should know 
in time to look about and secure a suit- 
able supply and have it tested before 
using it. 

Sending Samples now makes for effic- 
jency and economy in the work of th 
Seed Laboratories. P 


The laboratories are maintained by 
government funds (persons and firms 
having more than 25 samples per year 
tested pay 25 cents per test). When the 
work is received in a steady stream 
throughout the winter it can be handled 
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staff and with less equipment than when 


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a small handful of at least four ounces 
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including examination for weed seeds 
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REGINA, SASK., CANADA. 


well nearly every day in the year. 
for sale privately. or by auction, 


: | Clydesdales and Shorthorns 


nine months, a straight ‘‘Agusta,”? 
92,’' and a ‘‘Brawith Bud’ 


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Branch at Three Hills, Alta. 


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Canada’s Premier Hereford Herd 


700 Head of Pure-breds, headed by ‘‘Gay Lad 16th,’’ ‘‘Gay 
Lad 40th,’’ ‘‘Fairfax Perfection,’’ and other noted herd 


headers. 
and Heifers. Oome and look them 


Special Offering over, Prices Regsonable, ; 
FRANK COLLICUT, 836 11th Ave. W, CALGARY, Alta. 


Ranch at Crossfield, Alta. JOHN BLISS, Herdsman. 


A number of one and two-year-old Bulls 


Saskatchewan Shorthorn Club 


SHORTHORN BREEDERS in the province should associate themselves with the 

club for the advancement of the breed tn 

that result from the co-operation of those whose Interests as breed 

Membership, $2.00 Write the Secretary-Treasurer for particulars, 
Hon, President: 

DEAN RUTHERFORD, 


J. W. DURNO, Livestock Auctioneer | 
MIDWAY SALES STABLES, CALGARY, ALTA. 
Have as wide connection among breeders throughout Western Canada. 


If you are arranging a sale write me early for dates, as I 
Rates reasonable. Satisfaction assured. Horses 


Secretary- Treasurer: President: 


-H, FOLLETT, Duval. R. OW. 


Specialize in 


Sales; MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS. 


I have for sale or hire under the Federal system of assist- 
ance 10 horse-breeders, 14 STALLIONS, all of them im- 
ported, ranging in ages from three to 18 years old, by 
such sires as ‘‘Bonnie Buchlyvie,’’ ‘‘Marcellus,’’ ‘‘Royal 
Guest,’ ‘“Baron’s Pride,’’ ‘‘Model Buchlyvie’’ and others 
of equally high-class pedigree. I have also two Yearling 
Stallions, and three Yearling Fillies, of the most fashion- 
able breeding. Anyone looking for a good stock or show 
horse should see my Clydesdales: 

I will also sell two Hackney Stallions and two Hackney 
Mares. ; 

In Shorthorns I will sell three Imported Bulls, one. to 


two years old; two Bulls, imported in dam, nine months old; nine Bulls of my own 
breeding, seven months to two years old; six bull calves. 


' Aniong the imported bulls for sale are ‘‘Nonpareil Star,’’ 116605, three years old, 
a straight ‘‘Nonpareil,’’ sire 
‘*Royal Heir,’’ 20 months, sire ‘‘Cluny Prince Edgar,’’ 124810, dam ‘‘Roan Lady,’’ 
B ‘“‘Yavender Hero,’” 109188, 

120285, dam ‘‘Nonpareil 49th,’’ Vol. 58 Wh. 
sire ‘‘Boquhan Pride,’’ 111114, dam. ‘‘Augusta > 


Females of all ages. 


‘*Premiér Barl,’’? dam ‘*Cluny Nonpareil TIT.’’ 
ears, sire 


_**Nonpareil Boy,’’ two 
Pride,?? 


‘*Agus 


calf, imported in dam, sire ‘‘Monkshood,'' Vol. 68 E. 
Write me for Full. Particulars. : 


- Carberry, Man. 


Saskatchewan and for the advantages 
ers are Identical. 


CASWELL. 


oar individuals of these shows 
lave fo easy 


ould und things fair 
‘or them at the | 


| there was to the Clydesdales. 
‘«Revelanta’s 


. Graham  Bros.,° with 
Choice’’ won the junior and reserve 
grand championship, while they also 
got the réserve with ‘‘Glenifer Star,’’ a 
flashy yearling colt. The senior cham- 
pionship in stallions went to Ames, on 
‘‘Pairholme Footprint,’’ while the same 
breeders annexed the female champion- 
ship with ‘‘Fairholme Duchess.’’ The 
majority of the first prizes went to Mr. 


~ Ames. 


Good Show of Percherons 

Much keener competition, and on the 
whole, better all-round quality was to 
be found in the Percheron classes. It 
was stated by some of the ringside en- 
thusiasts, that while larger entries have 
ruled in former years the quality this 
year has not been beaten. This, it is 
stated, is aM the more remarkable on 
account of many new ambitious breeders 
whose names appear for the first time 
in this year’s prize list. Geo. Lane, of 
Calgary, who, as everyone knows, is the 
largest breeder of Percherons in the 
world, was a most interested spectator, 
and was very strong in his commenda- 
tion of the splendid showing made by 
his favorite breed. 

‘*Minstral’? was a popular choice for 
grand champion stallion. He is big 
and flashy in action and every inch a 
champion. This is the third succes- 
sive year Singmaster’s have won cham- 
pionship on stallion. : 

‘*Quanton,’’ reserve champion, a 
two-year-old, owned by  Delehester 
Farms, Edgement, Pa., is wonderfully 
well balanced, with size.and substance, 
eombined with quality. He was later 
made champion American.bred stallion 
of the show, with Singmaster’s four- 
year-old ‘‘ Mignon’? in reserve. 


Rupp’s Great Triumph in Belgians 
Geo. Rupp, of Lampman, Sask., put 
Western Canada, and Saskatchewan in 


_ particular, right into the spotlight with 


his Belgian horses. His two-year-old 
stallion ‘‘Paramount Flashwood,’’ won 
the junior championship and reserve 
grand championship, only yielding to the 
unheaten ten-year-old grand champion 
‘*Mon Gros,’’ owned by the Lefebures. 


The ‘‘Flashwood’’ colt is coming so' 


strong, however, that he will take some 
beating another year. The reserve 
champion is sired by the famous ‘‘Far- 
ceur,’’? which sold for $47,500, a record 
price for horses on this continent. One 
able critic describes him as being of 
the distinct ‘‘Farceur’’ pattern, large, 
commanding in front, extra long and 
level over the croup, big boned, hard as 
nails and moving admirably. With his 
size, scale, style and action, he is at- 
tractive to all horsemen. 

Rupp was also first in the filly foal 
class, with ‘‘Lady Wolver,’’ by ‘‘ Para- 
mount Wolver,’’ a very sweet foal of 
the’same well-known ‘‘Farceur’’ strain. 

Mr. Rupp did not show his mare 


‘Bostonia,’? as she had met with an_ 


accident soon after arrival, but even 
with this handicap he did well and has 
done more for the Belgian breed in 


Western Canada at one stroke than’ 


have the majority of breeders accom- 
plished in years of hard work. The 
famous Belgian stallion ‘‘Mon Gros,’’ 
owned by the Lefebures. of Fairfax, 
Towa, and twice grand champion at the 
International in earlier years, again 
carried off the premier honors. In the 
open class his massiveness and finish 
combined with his splendid carriage, 
laced him over the massive ‘‘Magnet,’’ 
elonging to Harvey Smith, Boswell, 
Ind. ‘Paramount Flashwood,’’ be- 
longing to Rupp, contended strongly 
with him for grand championship. - This 
young stallion is full brother to ‘‘Lis- 
ta,’’ twice grand champion mare at the 
International. The two-year-old mare 
**Paramount "ulu,’? owned by C. G. 
Good, of Ogden, Iowa, was made cham- 
pion mare over ‘‘Homerine,’’ owned by 


-H. Lefebure & Sons, Fairfax, Iowa, 


which was made reserve. ‘‘ Paramount 
Lulu’? is a daughter of ‘‘Farceur,’’ and 
this is the third year in succession that 
a daughter of that great sire has been 
champion mare, Mr. Rupp’s entries 
which he won with, as well as the 
majority of his Belgian holding are all 
‘*Fareeur’’ stock. : 


show. There was qu 


aie. a 
‘Eastern Canada, the Canadia 


the International. Southdowns were a 
particularly fine display; and the best 
of the prize money was carried away by 
two new exhibitors, Chambers Bros., 
of Woodstock, Ont., and John D. Larkin, 
of Buffalo, New York. Tie exhibits of 
both these firms were excellent as to 
type,and splendidly fitted. ‘The champion 
ram which was bred and owned by 


Chambers Bros., was of a splendid size, — 


with all the smoothness one would wish 
for. His twin, sister was also first 


in her class, but was defeated by the | 


Larkin entry for championship. The 


McEwen entries were well into the 


money, but they could not hold out 
against the bloom of their competitors. 
Shropshires were also well up to the 
standard, and presented great uniform- 
ity of type, as well as plenty of size 
and true style. The aged ram class was 
a remarkable one, the prize going to 
J. C. Andrew, West Point, Ind., on 
“fMontford HEmblem,’’ and second to 
H. LL. Wardwell, Springfield Centre, 
N.Y., on ‘‘Saturn.’’ ‘‘Montford Em- 
blem,’’ which has never been defeated, 
was made champion of the show. 
Broughton & Sons, of Albany, Wis., 
won the female championship with a 
very sweet yearling by ‘Tanner 
Royal.’? ; 


8 
with them some splendid individuals, , 
and in fact it was:stated that the cream 
of the animals of the different breeds | 
from‘ coast to coast could be found at | 


Hampshires were also a good show 


and quality was not lacking; Sherwood 
Bros., of Shelbyville, Mo., took all the 
firsts in the ram classes and also the 
championship. The Anoka Farm showed 
a beautiful ewe lamb which defeated 
last year’s champion, and got the 
award. Rambouillets were hotly con- 
tested, the champion ram went to the 
University of Illinois on a yearling. 
He is a remarkable combination of mut- 
ton qualities and fleece. The champion 
ewe went to Kings Bros., of Laramie, 
Wyo. She is sired by ‘*Majestic.’? 
Cotswolds were a big show as also 


were Cheviots and Oxfords, the entries in — 


the latter breed, of R. J. Stone, Ston- 
nington, Ill, coming in for a great deal 
of well deserved. commendation. The 
car-load lot of Southdown erades which 
won the championship belonged to 
Heart’s Delight Farm, Chazy, N.-Y., 
and were a splendidly even lot, pos- 
sessing remarkable uniformity in size, 
color and quality. 


The Swine Classes 


Poland-China classes were small but 
very good. First senior and grand 
championship positions went to ‘‘Big 
General Hadley,’’ from the B. Ff, 
Sager herd, of Belvedere, Til. He weighs 


1,040 pounds at three years old, but is 
very smooth. G. L. Burgess & Sons, of — 


Belmont, Tll., won the female ehampion- 
ship. In Berkshires, the Hood Farms 
and W. 8. Corsa were heavy winners. 
There was a lot of hot competition in 
Hampshires, R. P. Cotter, of Barnes- 
ville, Ga., winning the championship 
in boars. The Chester White male 
championship went to a big, smooth, 
stretchy, strong-boned boar belonging 


‘to J. W. Brendel, Zionsville, Ind. York- 


shire honors were pretty well divided 


“between Ohio State University and B. 


F, Davidson, of Menie, Iowa, the latter 
showing a sensational sow of great 
depth and length of side, strong arched 
back, excellent bone and good feet. 
Three Poland-China barrows from the 
University of Missouri, won the grand 
championship of the fat hog show. 
They defeated the pen of Duroc-Jersey 
barrows competing with them in the 
finals by Penn. State University, 
the Berkshire barrows of the Quaker 
Oats Co., the Hampshires from the 
University of Nebraska, and the cham- 
ion pen of Chester Whites, owned by 
-e K. Milner, of Thorntown. The win- 
ners were around 18 months old, and 
‘weighed on the average slightly over 
550 pounds er pores 
A Chester White barrow owned by the 


“University of Illinois, was made grand 


champion barrow of the swine show 
by Prof. W. L. Carlyle. He won over 
the Quaker Oats Berkshire, the Min- 


~nesota cross-bred, Penn. State Duroar- 


Jersey, and Simon Albrecht’s, of Tis- 
kilwa, Ill, Hampshire. The decision 
was popular. : 


x 


Who Can Produce Bushels | 


We Will Pay oe 
|500 Dollars in Cas 


For One Acre of Wheat i in 1 91 9 


C. S. Noble, of Nobleford, Alta., raised 54,395 bushels of 
wheat on one field of 1,000 acres, or 54.3 bushels per acre. - 


J: D. Rowley, a Manitoba farmer, raised 316 bushels of wheat 
on a four-acre plot in 1918, or 79 bushels per acre. 


Seager Wheeler, of Rosthern, Saskatchewan, has paiped wheat 


Persons who have secured seed hon The Guide a in the pas 
that yielded at the rate of 82 bushels per acre. a 


report yields of 50, 60 and more bushels per acre. 


Speaking in Winnipeg on November 14, 1918, Seager Wheeler said: ‘‘I am convinced that through the use of 
improved strains of seed now procurable, the average yee of wheat can be increased 10 bushels per acre.” WE 


KNOW THIS HAS BEEN DONE. 


You Can Increase ¥ our Yield — : 


We believe that by the use of the seed we are dis- 
tributing you can increase your yield of wheat from 
5 to 10 bushels per acre. Seeing is believing. You _ 


will know: if a demonstration is made Bh your 
farm. We want YOU to seed a test plot with G 
seed in 1919. 


We will furnish the seed and fee | 


$2500.00 in Cash Prizes 


among those who will co-operate with us in demonstrating how yields per acre can be increased through the us 
of better varieties and improved strains of seed. 


Here is the Proposition: 


onde in Prizes for Yield on One Acre 
100 PRIZES 


To the person producing the greatest number of bushels of 
wheat (by weight cleaned to commercial standard, no dockage) 
on a single acre of land seeded with Guide seed we will pay, on 
December 1, 1919, $500.00, Ninety-nine other prizes will be 
given as follows:— 


Pae Prize ee $200.00 in cash 

Sra Prize ee CM re ete 100.00 in cash 

4th Prize eye 80.00 in cash 

Sty PZ a we 70.00 in cash 
Othorise eo 60.00 in cash 

WAN lize ee 50.00 in cash 

th Prize 222 kere eee ania 40.00 in cash : 
9th and 10th—2 Prizes .................. 30.00 each in coe 
llth to 13th—3 Prizes................. .. 25.00 each in cash 
14th to 18th—5 Prizes... 0.50.0... 00000. 20.00 each in cash 
19th to 28th—10 Prizes ............ ee 15.00 each in cash 
29th to 59th—31 Prizes.......... ey 10.00 each in cash 


60th to. 100th—41 Priges Go a a 5.00 each in cash 


We are not trying to interest your neighbor in this proposition. 
that this plan consistently followed will add hundreds of dollars to YOUR revenue annually. Read the Next Three Pages. 


PRESERVE THIS—It will help you put more bushels in your bins and more bank notes in aur pocket book. 


$500 in Prizes for Quality 
50 PRIZES i 


In November, 1919, The Guide will hold a seed fair in whe | 
ne 00 in cash will be distributed as follows: — 


10th and 11th—2 Prizes 
12th and 13th—2 Prizes 
14th and 15th—2 Prizes . ‘ 

16th to 19th—4 Prizes ......... i ie ee ( 
20th to 24th—5 Prizes .......... SC anes ss CUNT : 
Zoth to 52nd-8 Prises ee ee 
33rd to 42nd—10 Prizes ......... Peet oh RR Eat cee) ee 


= 
83rd to 50th=-8 Prizes op ae ds 
We want YOU to have a test plot on YOUR farm. We An a 


"WHAT WE ARE DOING 


world. 

We are distributing this grain in such a manner 
_ as will enable YOU to obtain the best seed it is pos- 
sible to secure, whether you have any spare cash 
available or not. 


in cash prizes will be distributed on wheat samples. 
We are offering $2,000 in cash prizes that will be 
distributed among those who will sow a test plot 
of one acre in 1919. 
_ On December 1, 1919, we will pay $500 ti the per- 
son, man, woman, boy or girl; who produces the great- 
est number of bushels of wheat on a single acre of 
land seeded with Guide seed. 


WHY WE ARE DOING IT 
During the last four years we have supplied — 
more than 3,000 farmers with seed grain. In 
1918 a referendum of those who had secured 
seed was taken. 
92.2 per cent. heartily endorsed our plan: of 
distribution. 
> 91.1 per cent. requested that we continue to 
supply our readers with superior seed. 
We have on file hundreds of letters from in- 
’ dividuals who have secured seed from us. 
We have the testimony of the foremost seed 
growers in the world and of practical farmers. 
|. . We are convinced that grain yields per acre 
ean be very substantially increased by the use 
of improved strains of seed. We believe you 
ean increase your yields by using the kind of - 
seed we have for distribution. More bushels 
mean more dollars. 


WHY IT’S A SURE THING 


You do not have to invest any money. 

Seeure a 90-pound bag of The Guide’s im- 
proved, heavy-yielding strain of seed. 

Seed it on an acre of well-cultivated land. 
_ Under normal conditions it will yield at least 

40 bushels per acre. 

On a basis of present prices, the seed from 
- this acre should find ready sale at from $3.50 

_ to $8.00 per bushel depending upon the variety 
and the quality of the sample. At this rate 
_ the acre seeded with Guide seed would yield a revenue of from 

$140 to $320. 
An acre seeded with ordinary seed will probably yield 25 
bushels per acre. 


Or grain to the value of approximately $50 on a basis of 
present prices. 

If you desire to sell this seed you stand to make from $90 
to $270 of a clear gain over what you vo ordinarily secure 

from this aere. 

If you ‘will use the seed on your own ie next year and 
the year after, and each succeeding year for many, if the 
strain is seeded and kept pure, this seed will continue to: 
_ increase your yield and better the quality of your product. 
.. Then there is the ‘‘Acre Yield’’ Competition and the Seed 
Fair, with $2,500 in cash prizes to be distributed. 


There is no chance to lose for you need have no investment, 


_ Under any cireumstances you will have foundation stock of 
the best seed in the world. 


IT’S PRACTICALLY A SURE THING 


‘THIS IS FOR YOU _ 


“We are supplying our readers with the most 
highly-developed, heavy-yielding seed grain in the te 


_ We are holding a Seed Fair in 1919 at which $500 


Mr. E. E. Young, of Oak Lake, Man., 
“who secured the highest score for 

wheat at The Guide Seed Fair. Winner 

of the $100 cash prize and the Robert- 
: son Gold Medal, 


“*T see nothing but 
selected seed for all of my crop. My 
‘Marquis’ Wheat yielded 30 bushels, 
per acre, which is wonderful after the 
I am a firm believer 
in the use of good seed. I am confi- 
dent that the yield per acre can be 
raised at lenst five bushels by the use lost. 

of selected seed,’! 


‘Mr. Young writes: 


wind and drouth. 


“ecrmenentraiemimatae nt nN ASA SAAES EROS RM AREER EN 


$500 IN CASH FOR THE BEST ACRE ~. 


‘THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING - 


It is possible to ie from 70 to 80 bushels of wheat on an We 


acre of land. It has been done. 
It is possible to produce 50 or more biahiels of wheat pee 
acre under field conditions on large acreages. 


We know it is possible, for it has been done. Tt cannot be e 


done without the right kind of seed. 

These yields have been obtained from the kind ot seed that 
is being distributed by The Guide. — - 
_ Now keep this in mind, this is not a funeral Tt is your 
chance to take advantage of an opportunity that will help 
you raise more bushels and make more dollars. 

The proof of the pudding—You know! 

We have supplied more than 3,000 farmers with seed. Over 


90 per cent. of reports from these men testify as to the, value 


of using the kind of seed we are distributing. 
We know there is money in this for YOU. 
You can not know until you have given it a pat 
It need not cost you any money, 
neeety yourself—Seed a Test Acre this year. 


WHOM DOES THIS CONC ERN 


The farmer who is interested in growing more 
bushels of wheat from the acreage he now has 
under cultivation, should secure at least a 90- 


ee? 


improved heavy-yielding strains that can be- 
secured only from The Guide. This seed will 
bring more bushels. It concerns YOU. 

The farmer’s wife, who is desirous of incr eas- 
ing the profits from the farm should see that. 
a demonstration plot is provided and seeded 
with The Guide seed. Year after year the use 
of this seed will add extra dollars to the bank | 
balance. It concerns that farmer’s wife. 

Every farm boy and every farm girl should 
have an acre of land of their own. : By using 
The Guide seed from ‘this acre, andar: ‘reason- 
‘able circumstances, seed to the value of from 
$75 to possibly $300 can be secured according 
to the yield, the kind of grain, and the quality 
of the sample. The progeny from The Guide 
seed can be sold. Give your boy or your girl 
a chance to start right. ; 


DO IT NOW 
Now, here we are. Just a little of your spare 
time devoted to helping us spread the gospel 
of better and more profitable farming, helping 
us in our effort to build up the great farmers’ 
associations, by placing The Guide in more 
homes, will get the seed, but no time should be 


There is just so much of this grain: After 
- it is gone no more can be secured. 

All orders will be filled and all reservations 
will be made consecutively as they are received at The Guide 
office. First come, first served. 

If the demand for any kind of erain is greater Man our 
supply, we reserve the right to substitute another one of the 
varieties listed. 

Get your order in early. | : 

With practically: no inconvenience you can get this seed 
without any cash outlay. Anyone can get it. If you would 


rather pay some cash, all right, but you can probably | get 


enough subscriptions on your road to town to entitle you to a 
90-pound lot. i 
Don’t waste any time. A day’s delay may mean that you. 
eannot have your choice as to variety. 

Hitch up today and get the subscriptions. hucns person 
is a prospect; every person should get The Guide. 

See your neighbors TODAY; they will help you out with the 
subscriptions. They will be glad to help you secure this seed 


‘for they will certainly want to secure ‘some of the seed. from 


you the following year. 

Begin NOW and send in the fels subscriptions which will 
entitle you to a 90-pound reservation. 
cash or ‘subseriptions atalater date. = 

There is money in this for YOU, We want You, ae your 


neighbor, or your son, or your father, but YOU to “seed a. 


demonstration acre in 1919. 


THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE, WINNIPEG, MAN. = 2 


ra 


ies 


pound lot of Wheeler’s new wheat or of the — 


Send the balance in 


1 


: Rocwnd “Marquis” Wheat 


It was from the pres of Seager Wheeler’s 
Registered ‘ ‘Marqul 8’? Wheat, that 0. 8. Noble, 
of Nobleford, Alta., raised 54,395 bushels on a 
1,000-acre field. ‘‘Marquis’’ has won more yield 
contests and carried off more big Hide f 
' prizes’? than any other variety now bei ng shown. 
It was reer Wheeler’s ‘‘Marquis’’’ Wheat 
that won the World’s Ghauipionalio for a bushel 
of Pylon in 1911, 1914 and 1915, ; 
rding to the new ruling of the Canadian 


First or Second Generation Registered Seed is 
entitled to sell the progeny as registered grain. 

Every bushef of the Registered ‘‘Marquis’’ Wheat that. 
is being distributed by The Grain Growers’ Guide ae 
of the most highly shobaee a heayy-yielding strains, 
directly descended from World Prize-winning Stock. 

Every gel el who secures an allotment of this ‘‘Mar- 

quis’? eat will not only secure the very best of im- 

roved ‘‘Marquis’? seed that will result in increased 
yields and better quality, but if they desire to sell the 
grain produced, it ean be sold as registered 

In some districts this grain is to be preferred to the. 
other two varieties being distributed by The Guide. 
The Guide stock of ‘‘Marquis’’ Wheat is all from hand- 
selected seed that has the strength, vitality and yield- 
ing ability, that will yield more bushels of Rotter 
quality. This seed will help you win some of the 
$2,500 that The Guide is offering. Secure some of this 
‘seed and demonstrate for yourself what can be accom- 
plished through the use of pure seed, selected by the 
oe experts in the world. Thos. D. Grace, of Arran, 

ask., writes: ‘‘This is the wheat secured from The 
Guide. ‘ It yielded 50 bushels to the acre.’’ 

A few hours now and an acre next summer, may win 
that $500, Some person will get it, you 
mee you try. 
We will give a 90-pound sample of this world prize- 
winning stock of **Marquis’’ to any person sendin, al 
12 New or renewal yearly su ptions to The 


10 New or renewal yearly subscriptions to The Guide 
and $1.50 in cash. 
8 New or renewal yearly subscriptions to The Guide 
and $3.00 in cash, 
' 6 New or renewal yearly subscriptions to The Guide 
and $4.50 in cash. . 
4 New or renewal yearly subscriptions to The Guide 
and $6.00 in cash. 
You must send at least the equivalent for four yearly 
subseriptions, 
You will-never grow rich through wotching YOUR ® 
NEIGHBOR Brey big crops. 


aoe yield is what counts. Why not try for that 


“RED BOBS? WHEAT 


Beauey Wheeler is internationally ‘recognized as the ‘‘Seed Wheat 


Man?’ of North Ameriea. Probably his greatest achievement has been — 


the development of ‘‘Red Bobs’? Wheat. 

‘‘Red Bobs’? Wheat was awarded the ‘‘championship’’ for both grain 
ae sheaf atthe International Exhibition in Kansas City in October, 
1 
In 1918, for the first time, ‘‘Red Bobs’? Wheat was | Sia at widely | 

vidual farmers, 

We have reports from a. very large number of pete and a summary of 

answers to specific questions show the follow ‘ 

eee per cent. report adverse climate afer tye fe wind, drought, frost 
and rust. 

65.2 ie cent. report ‘‘Red Bobs’? earlier than ‘‘Marquis,’’? from one 
to 16 days. 

34.8 per cent. report ‘‘Red Bobs’’ no earlier than ‘‘Marquis.’’ 
61.5 per cent. report ‘‘Red Bobs’’ superior to ‘‘Marquis.’’ 
28.8 per cent. report ‘‘Red Bobs’? equal to ‘‘Marquis.’’ 

9.7 per cent. report ‘‘Red Bobs’’ no better or inferior to “Marquis. ’? 
Below will be found the ap nions of some ‘of the experimental farms in 

Western Canada who | ew this grain in 1918, Also reports from practi- 

cal farmers. These opinions came to us in the form of letters and cso ahi : 

sit may be considered typical:— 
EXPERIMENTAL FARM REPORTS 4 
The Experimental Farm at Indian Head, reports very poor showing of 

. the ‘*Red Bobs’? Wheat, stating that it was fected by rust to @ greater 
degree than other varieties, 

The Experimental Farm at Brandon, Man., writes: ‘‘ ‘Red Bobs’ has 

' not done particularly well. I am wrtihalding my opinion upon it until 

I see another year’s results.’’ 

_ The Experimental Farm at Scott, Sask., “writes: ‘The ‘Red Bobs’ 

has shown up fairly well. . It gives, promise for dry seasons such as we 

have had this year.’? ; 

REPORTS FROM PRACTICAL FARMERS 

ees R. Haglof, of Haglof, Sask., writes: ‘‘From 40 pounds of ‘Red 

Bobs’ Wheat ig secured 25 bushels, From 60 pounds of ‘Kitchener’ 


separated points throughout Western Canada by ind 


years at $6.00. 


.2.-—A three-year subscription will count the same as two yearly subscriptions at $1.50 


each, A six-year subscription will count the same as four yearly subscriptions, 
3.—Renewal subscriptions will count the same as new subscriptions, 


for each six-year subscription must be collected from the subscriber, 


6.—All subscriptions collected must be from farmers living in Saskatchewan, Manitoba 


‘or Alberta, — 
- -eoun 


_ AND HOW TO GET IT 


~ long-strawed, plump kerneled, heavy- palig 

- wheat, developed by Mr. Wheeler from one of his 
‘Marquis’? strains. It was with ‘‘Kitchener’’. 
Wheat that Seager Wheeler won. the World’s - 
Championship in 1916. 


Wheeler raised 82 bushels per acre and estab- 

lished what we believe to be a world record yield 
‘a for hard spring wheat. 

Sead rowers’ Association, every person securing 

ceptional length and strength of straw, plenty 


To become an expert judge of 
cattle requires that a Hfe-time be 
spent in studying types and pecul- 
jarities in individuals. It is a 
profession and an exacting one. 


In a similar sense the sélection 
and development of desirable 
varieties of grain is a profession. 
Tt requires expert knowledge, ex- 
treme care in execution and un- 
remitting attention to minute de- 
tails that are impracticable under 
ordinary farming conditions. 


‘ ‘It is neither possible or desir- 
WON'T able that every farmer become a 
seed. grain expert. ‘ 


It is most desirable that every 
or— farmer be enabled to Profit 
| through the experience and know- 
ledge of those men who have - 
made a life-long study and pro- a 
fession of seed development. 


The Guide seed is from world 
prize-winning stock the best seed | 
of the world’s experts. 


' adjacent land.'I feel satisfied that had my crop all been ‘Red Bobs’ 


-item on that ‘Red Bobs,’ ’’ 


tasrge 
1.—Subscriptions can be taken for one dined at $1. 50, three years at $3.00 or six 


4.—The full amount of $1.50 for each yearly, $3.00 for each three-year and $6.00 
8.—Make 

; . 9—See your neighbors at ‘once, 
6.—You “iray secure subscriptions from at least two other Persons before your own will. 


“Kitchener” Wheat 


‘«Kitehener’? Wheat is a distinct variety. 


It was from ‘‘Kitchener’’ seed that Seager 


The ‘‘Kitehener’’ is characterized by an ex- 


of strong uniform stems to each plant and a very — 
large, plump berry, that fills bins and adds wei iit 
- per bushel. It is not as early in ripening as ‘‘ 
Bobs,’’ but as early as '* Marquis.’’ In districts where 
frost is not a constant menace ‘‘Kitchener’’ will 
‘(make good,’? 

Of ‘‘Kitehener’’? Wheat, F. J. Dash, one of the most 
prominent members of the Canadian Seed Grain As 
sociation in Saskatchewan, says. ‘‘ ‘Kitchener’ has — 
them all beaten.’’ Mr. Dash is selling his ‘‘Kit- 
chener’’ Wheat this year at $7.00 per bushel for seed. 

Guy Wilson, of Theodore, Sask., writes: Tt will 
have to be a very wonderful wheat to beat ‘Rit- 
thener,’ which, in spots not blown out, in. the spring, sy 
will go over 50 bushels per acre.’’ : ” 

A. Hoag, of Boden, Alta., says: ‘‘ “ Ritehener! Wheat 
is a very wonderful wheat indeed. In some of your 
advertisements regarding it you claimed it made 80 
bushels per acre. I thought when I read that there 
must be some mistake, but now I have seen it grow, 
T think it quite possible.’’ 

All the ‘‘Kitchener’’? being distributed by The 
Guide is produced from Seager Wheeler’s purest ata 
and is the very best obtainable. ; 

A few hours of your spare time will secure for ae 
a 90-pound lot of this valuable seed. 

We will send a 90-pound shipment of Wheeler 
‘« Kitchener’? Wheat to any person who will send us: 


15 New or renewal yearly subseriptions to The Guide ; 


12 New or renewal yearly Sn DRCrOtanE to The Guide : 
and $2.25 in cash. 


8 New or Pace tpbas yearly subscriptions: to The Guide 
and $5.25 in cash. 


65 New or renewal yearly “subscriptions to The. Guide 
and $7.50 in cash, ~ 


You must send at least the equivalent of five yearly 
Sap ene One 


‘THERE IS $500.00 FOR THE BEST ACRE 


Wheat, 20 bushels, My main crop seeded on Suan yielded. 12 
bushels per acre. 

C. Rice-Jones, of Veteran, Alta., writes: ‘‘The ‘Red Bobs’ stood the 
drouth better than the ‘Kitchener’ and ‘Marquis’ Wheat grown on — 


I should have saved a lot more wheat than I did. 
J. J. Bierd, of Foxwarren, Man., says: ‘‘I think ‘Red Bobs’ will be 
THE wheat. It ripens 16 days earlier than the ‘Marquis.’ ?? : 
W. J. K. Savage, of Saxby, Sask., writes. ‘‘I consider it the best whent 
I have seen so far. It ripens about ten days earlier than ‘Marquis’ and 
Taylor’s ‘Wonder,’ ’’ 
ouglas Smith, of Edgerton, Alta., writes: ‘‘The ‘Red Bobs’ held up 
better than the ‘Marquis. * With favorable conditions it is far Superior 
to a wheat grown in this district.’’ 
J. W. T. Cook, of Southey, Sask., writes: ‘‘ ‘Red Bobs’ is certainly 
a ee wheat, far superior to recommendations, If it is ossible for 
me to buy some from you state the gi) as the price is the smallest 


The above are samples of reports Roiibig into our office. We believe 
the ‘Red Bobs’ Wheat may eventually displace some of the varieties 
now being grown, A profitable market for seed of this variety is » 
undoubtedly assured for the next few years and the seed can be obtained 
only from The Guide. All we ask is a small service. ae 


We will give 90 pounds of the ‘‘Red Bobs’’ wheat ae any person : 

sending us:— 

25 New or renewal yearly subscriptions to The Guide, or. 2 
20 New or renewal yearly subscriptions to The Guide and $3.75 in cash. 

16 New or renewal yearly subscriptions to The Guide and $6.75 in cash. 

12 New or renewal yearly subscriptions to The Guide and $9.75 in cash, 

8 New or renewal yearly subscriptions to The Guide and $12.75 in cash. 

6 New or renewal yearly subscriptions to The Guide and $14.25 in cash. 

You must send at least the equivalent of six yearly subscript ons. 


Some man, woman, girl or boy will secure $500 in 1919 for if Brow an 
acre of land seeded with The Guide seed wheat, 


Secure their subscriptions and on a plain shi 
jee renee names and addresses and forward to us with the necessary 


B 


Harry Hind, of Borden, Sask., 
the Boy Champion Oat Grower 
of Western Canada, Harry is a 
real hustler.’ He won prizes 
on Aly oats totaling $185. He 
writes :— 

“Last winter I saw. in The 
Guide how: boys could secure 
goed. beed without having to 
invest any money. I had no 
difficulty in securing the seed 
and that is as far as 1 looked 

ead, he seed alone was 
well worth the trouble. I sure 
when I learned 

won the 

prize. If I had won no 

prize I would still have had a 

ve! valuable experience, but 
wil the prizes, oh, boys!’’ 


Ari P. 
Sask., 
Saskatchewan. 
totaling $165, as follows :— 
Special Prize. on Oats, $100, 
For of isda at Saska- 


Arnison, of Mozart, 
Barley Champion from 
He won prizes 


toon, $5 rize on Oat sam- 
le, $15. He says: “I saw in 
he Guide how boys could ob- 
tain eae seed free. A neighbor 

and urged me to take it 


seed. I seeded this grain and 
it ‘yielded twice as much as 
the neighbors got from ordinary 
seed sown on similar land.’’ 
: Arni is a real boy and in ad- 
‘dition to the valuable seed he 
fi his crop, he won $165 
in prizes. Pretty good for a 
week’s work for a 14-year-old 
boy, jan’t it? 


a 


Melvin Park, of Carman, Man., 
Manitoba winner in ‘Boys’ Oat 

ass.’’ He won prizes to the 
amount of $110 in cash. Be- 
sides he has a lot of the best 


Your Boy 
Here is a Man’s Job 
| forHim | 
_ Do you want your boy to become 
a successful manr If you do, get him 


Six Boys Win $765.00 in Cash Prizes 


through The Guide Better Seed route. In 1918, six boys won prizes in The Guide Is A 
. competitions, amounting to $765. Scores of other boys won from $5.00 to $20.00 each. hoe 


~ Oh Gee! 
- Mother 
lore 


Roy 


interested. Let him know 
the pleasure of achievement, the 
pride of possession. Let him 
stand on his own feet, be responsible 
for some one thing, do something for 
himself. | : 

It isn’t enough to let the boy own a calf or a horse 
or raise a patch of wheat. ‘The stimulus of competition 
is lacking, the boy must feel that he is matching his brains, 
his muscle, his ability against those of other boys or men. 

Start your boy Right. Let him enter The Guide’s big Acre 
Yield Competition. : . 


Scores of. boys throughout Western Canada have started on the road to success 


THIS 


Read what they say; read 
what mothers and fathers say: 

Mrs. A. McCool, of Zealandia, 
writes: 

“T take great pleasure in 
writing to thank you for what. 
you have done for my boy. I can’t praise it too 
highly. : 


What this competition will 
do for YOUR boy | 


Develop initiative. 

Stimulate ambition. 

Create confidence in himself. 
Interest him in his work. 
Make him self-reliant. 


Strengthen him physically and 
mentally, 


Enable him to obtain practical 
information. 


Stamp him as THE progressive 
boy of the community. 


Train ‘him for leader- 
ship and success, 


‘**Chuck full of vim 
and confidence.’’ 

Encourage YOUR boy. 
He may win that $500 prize. 


“Yours truly, 
‘*Mrs. A. MeCOOL.”’’ 


Mrs. Hsther Cates, of Mclean, Sask., writes: 
‘Tt certainly is a splendid thing for the boys in 
every way. The regular routine, the competing 
with other boys, the managing of their own busi- 
ness, ete. 
“Thanking you for what you 
have done for Jamie, I remain, 
“Yours sincerely, 
“HSTHER W. CATES.” 


O. Cherwonick, of Landis, 
Says: \ 
“T thank you for what you 
have done for-my boy. ‘ 
“Yours truly, 
“*O. CHERWONICK.’?’ 


The Champion Boy Grain Grower of Western Canada, 
Roy V. Roberts, of Battleford, Sask. He won $150 
in cash prizes on his sample of wheat and now stands 
as the unbeaten Boy Champion of the West. He says: 
‘“The Grain I secured from you out-yielded any 
that my father had. I will sure be in on any com: 
petition you have next year, Please accept my heart- 
jest thanks for all you have done for me,’’ 


a reneerereieneeieanmnienaninisatssmteis 


It will do as much for 
your daughter. 


Start them RIGHT. 
DO IT NOW! 


To the Farm Boys of Western Canada 


Did you ever hear of Jerry Moore? He is the most famous farm boy in the United States. Why? He raised more corn on a single acre 
of land than was ever before grown. He lived in South Carolina. Thee average yield of corn for the state was 24 bushels. Jerry Moore raised 
228 bushels on one acre, more than ten times as much as the; average. 228 bushels from a ten-acre patch was commbm, But that much from 
a single acre! This was unheard of, Jerry did it. He had the right kind of seed. After Jerry showed them what could be done the people 
began to investigate the matter of good seed and as a result three years after, the State of South Carolina produced over three times as much corn. 

Boys, by using the right kind of seed the wheat yields in Western Canada can be increased many bushels per acre. We want Canadian farm 
boys to demonstrate what can be done. 

We will pay $500 in Cash to the person who will grow the most bushels on an acre of land in 1919, seeded with Guide seed. 

Get 90 pounds of this seed—you do not need any money—and get your father to let you have an acre of; land next year. 

You may win that $500. ; 2 

You show your father and your neighbors how they can increase their yields through ‘using good seed.. 

Remember six boys won prizes totaling $765 by growing seed for us in 1918. ; 
Just a few hours of pleasant work, will get you the seed. Don’t be scared, show the folks in your neighborhood that you are made of the 
right kind of stuff. They will be glad to help you, by giving you their subscriptions, If you tell them what you are trying to do. 

pet begin right NOW. Get your father to help you. Counsel with mother. Be one of the ‘‘Guide Boys’’ who will raise big crops and - 
win prizes next year, B ‘ : ae 


You can sell them seed next fall. 


SEE PRECEDING PAGE FOR FULL DETAILS, 


ff in the grinding down of the rocks 
ay moving ice during the ice age 
of the Northern Hemisphere. 
As They have been deposited in large 
measure where they now lie by ice or 
_ by rivers and streams running over the 
ice and into the lakes left by the 
receding ise sheet. The roeks underly- 
ing the ice sheet towards Hudson’s Bay 
were hard and not easily ground down, 
but westwards from Lake Winnipeg 
the surface rocks were shales and lime- 
stones, relatively soft rocks, readily 
ground, broken and incorporated into 
the southward, slowly moving sheet of 
ice. Remnants of these limestone rocks 
may be seen at. Stonewall, Stony Moun- 
tain, Gunton and along the eastern shore 
of Lake Manitoba. Eventually the 
overlying mass of ice melted and drop- 
ped its mixed mass of soil-forming 
material in deposits ranging from a few 
feet to-800 feet in depth. In the neigh- 
borhood of Winnipeg it ranges from 
30 to 80 feet deep, resting upon lime- 
- stone. At Portage la Prairie it is 160 
feet deep, while west of the Pembina 
Mountains and Tiger Hills it is shal- 
lower, frequently not more than five 
feet deep but sometimes as much as 60 
feet. On top of this mass of glacial 
material has been laid in the Red River 
Valley, finely divided material brought 
down by streams flowing into the 
shallow lake that covered this valley 
during the last stages of the ice age. 
- The largest of these streams came in 
over the ice fromthe west and left 
eat deposits of glacial material in 
its fan-shaped delta. The Assiniboine 
River is what remains of this glacial 
stream and the sand hills on either side — 
of its banks between Douglas and 
Portage la Prairie belong to this delta, 
The Brandon and Tiger Hills formed 
the southern margin of the delta. A line 
running frem the Tiger Hills west of 
Miami to Elm Creek thence across the . 
Assiniboine River, through Raeburn to 
Lake Manitoba forms the Eastern limit 
of this stream-deposited material. The 
Northern boundary roughly approxi- 
mates a line running from Douglas to 
Neepawa, thence eastwards through 
Arden and Gladstone to Lake Mani- 
tona, The sand hills found wichin tuis 
arca were formed from the glacial de- 
tritus brought down by this ice age an- 
ccstor of the present, modest Assini- 


boine, 
Prehistoric Lakes 

When the ice sheet finally melted, an 
outlet was openeds into Iludson’s Bay 
and Lake: Agassiz drained off, leaving 
as relicts Lakes Winnipeg, Manitoba 
and Winnipegosis, and a wonderfully 
rich soil ready for cultivation. The 
western margin-of this prehistoric lake 
was formed by the Pentbina Mountains, 
Tiger Hills, Riding Mountains, Duck 
Mountains and the Porcupine and Pas- 
qua Hills. The eastern shore lay well 
beyond the Lake of the Woods, 

ake Agassiz, extending along the 

southern edge of the ice sheet, followed 
the retreating ice barrier as it melted 
away, and as the lake advanced north- 
ward, beeame ever shallower and shal- 
lower. Successive parallel beaches 
marking this period of recedence were 
left behind as memorials of this enor- 
mous lake. Such beaches, having a 
general north and south direction, may 
be obseryed at many places along the 
western shore, as in the neighborhood 
of Treherne, Miami, Morden, Neepawa 
and Arden. One very well marked 
beach runs parallel to the western shore 


- Manitoba Soils Ai 
Why Lime is Probably not required on the Farm of 
By F. W. Shipley, Professor of Chemistry, 
WN HE soils of Manitoba originated | 


of Lake Manitoba at its northern end 
and four to five miles distant from it. 
Another euts across through the town 
of Stonewall. 
form the roads of a district or building 
sites for farm houses, and are sources 


of sand and gravel for road making 


and building purposes. : 

Limestone pebbles and limestone sand 
form one of the principal constituents 
of these beaches, and since the com- 
position of the beaches <gives a fair 
indication of the adjacent areas, an 
abundance of lime will be met with 
in the soil. 

Soils Rich in Lime. 

The. rich blackness of the Red River 
Valley is due to the presence of an 
excess of lime in the soil, lime provided 
from the pulverized limestone of the 
ice and distributed by. the later action 
of streams. The soils of Manitoba are 
almost if not everywhere rich in lime, 
lime far and away beyond the lime 
requirement of plant. 
or two of hydrochloric (muriatic) aci 
placed on a sample of almost any sub- 
soil will cause brisk effervesence, and 
frequently even the surface ‘soil, in 
which most of the lime is usually fixed 
in the black organic matter, will also 
affervesce. Deposits of marl underlie 
many swamps, such as that near West- 
bourne, and this white, shell-like mater- 
ial, is almost like lime. Nowhere, so far 
as I know, has an acid or sour soil been 
reported in Manitoba west of the Red 
River. Sourness and lime do not exist 
together, and the absence of such acid 
soils is due to the superabundance of 
lime, : 

There may be found small areas in 
the Pembina, Riding and Duck Moun- 
tains where the soil has been formed 
from shale, deficient in limestone, or 
pockets from which the lime, for some 
reason or other, has been leached out; 
but such areas will be of small extent. 
A simple test with muriatic acid will 
in a rough way indicate /whether a 
soil has sufficient lime. If any effer- 
vescence is observed, there is no lack 
of lime. On the other-hand, the absence 
of visible effervescence does not neces- 
sarily indicate a soil so deficient in lime 
that liming should be resorted to, 

More humid ¢limates than ours cause 
the leaching out of the lime in the 
soil, If the leaching out process is in 
excess of the lime provided by the de- 
composition of the soil particles, a de- 


ficiency of lime will result. Such fre- 


quently happens when the rain-fall’ is 
excessive and the run-off large. But 
the soils of Manitoba are not subjected 
to such a leaching. On the other hand, 
the alternate thawing and freezing in 
spring and autumn and the great spread 
in temperature between mid-day and 
dawn tends to pulverize the soil par- 
ticles and keep the supply of lime in 
excess of the demand 
Liming “Not Required 

Recently a movement to introduce 
the practice of liming soils in Western 
Canada has been made, based upon the 
success following this practice in On- 
tario, Ohio and other eastern sections. 
There is no reason for believing that 
results commensurate with the cost 
would follow the application of lime 


“to the soils of Manitoba, already super- 


abundantly _ supplied with this plant 
requirement, Experiments carried out 
on the plots at the Manitoba Agricul- 
tural College have not indicated any 
beneficial result following from a dres- 
sing of lime. No experiments with lime 


have been carried out on the plots at 


Big Yields are not Secured when the Soil is Poor in Lime. 


ny 


These beaches often | 


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. abun of 
the a of the farm, 


general there is abundance 
in the soils of Manitoba, any — 
deeming it desirable to try out 
of liming should do so on 
‘perimental plots before going 
2 the of liming the whole field. 
nce where so. little experi- _ 
ork of this nature has been 
d out, this would be the only 
cal course to purse, and especially 
this particular soil constituent 
d it be desirable to consider the 
ent eve as an experiment on 


a voll drained aah is deciles, 


—east or south exposure is desirable with 
a wind break on the west and north to catch 
a the snow and break the sweep of the wind. 
The farmstead has two uses. It is both 5. Hasy access to the fields of the farm. 
home for the farmer and his family and From the social point.of view the most 
ness centre for Siresting farm opera- desirable location is on the main travelled 

eon selecting asiteforthefarmstead, road, close to churches, schools and 

@ two ints of view should be con- markets. From the business point of 

n this connection there are view the most economical location is in 

OF eis features rather important. the centre of the farm where all fields are 
aL abundant supply of water ‘usvally most accessible. The ideal loca- 
le both for the home and livestock. tion is one 
Distance from main travelled roads, 

schools and churches, 

ealthfulness ne lovation—a high 


rke 


home and business. This is rarely possible 
_and it is better to plan for a satisfactory 


“nl] A 99 CRAIN CLEANER 
& AND SEPARATOR 


Does the work of two ordinary Separators—in half the time the 
‘grain can be cleaned by one—and you are sure of better results. 


___A new principle is used—two separate gangs instead of one—foreed feed 
with repeat elevator. The ‘‘Dual’’ has double screening surface, so that 
a thinner bed of grain can be made to pass over the screen, producing extra 
ood work. It is absolutely impossible to sag these sieves. The good con- 
struction also gives long life. 


‘Patented cut-off feature increases capacity 60 per cent. over other 
machines not having any such arrangement. 

We have a very interesting folder which illustrates and deseribes the 
Dual.’’ Send for it. tonight. 


: for ‘either market or seed. 


: lifetime. The simplicity of design permits eae to get out of order. 


THE NEW SUPERIOR — 


Grain Grader and Separator 


his machine is built to clean any kind of grain and do perfect work. 

hat the ‘‘New Superior’’ cannot do, no other fanning mill can do, 

Exceptionally easy to operate, and is absolutely reliable. Made in 

sizes: 24, 832 and 42 inches wide, with or without bagger, and with 
wer attachment for gasoline engine if desired. 


With the patented open. and blank sieves it positively separates 
every wild oat seed, causing them to lie flat and not up on end. 


Th qannls. ‘‘New Superior’’ is strong, esums and bolted 


Ae ge 


= Dept D, Whyte Ave. and Vine St. eo. 


- Lake Preighters Loaded with Canadian Wheat Passing the Soo. 


4. Shelter from north and west winds © 


where all advantages _ 
are secured from the point of view of 


\ 
From now until next seeding time you will find a 
sally good cleaner and separator such as fie Dual’? a great coe in cleaning grain 


erican 


| Separator and Grader 


This machine is not a fanning. mill or a cleaner, but is the only 
real Wild Oat Separator that absolutely takes wild oats out of 
of tame oats and barley. In the same operation this machine 


grades the oats or barley to a uniform size for seed. 

A long, slotted zine sieve, perforated absolutely unform, is used. 
With our patented slats working over this sieve, keeping it clean at all 
times, a thin layer of grain is distributed over the full surface of the 
sieve, compelling every kernel to come in contact with the sieve, so that - 
no kernel is allowed to go over that is smaller than the perforation. We 
have a folder fully describing what this separator does. 

' Well-made of seasoned hardwood and thoroughly braced with steel rods and bolts. 


_ BUILDERS OF THE. FAMOUS CUSHMAN LIGHT: WEIGHT ENGINES — 
WINNIPEG, “Man. a 


viously described, 
the growing cro 

In the case 
es most of 
has been completed 
‘the plant food preser 
right : c 
the growing crop. The borer or ripe 
ing of the manure is mainly t! 
tive action of the. bacteria contal: 
_the manure, : 


The kinds of, bacteria which bring ‘ 
about this action in the manure pile — 
are the same as those which bring about 
the digestive processes in the soil. But 
the conditions which p 


Nouns at the ‘sustilics af some of the farm 
Hawes clea oe A. a Benton, 
M.A 


iis Manur e Pile 


ane action teria of various “ase of bac- 
teria in manure is necessary to prepare 
it for plant assimilation. The changes 
that take place in manure from its fresh 
to its wel ceatted condition are due al- 
most altogether to the action of bac- 
teria aided to some extent by molds. 
When fresh manure is added directly 
to the soil, the plant food which it con- 
tains is not 80 readily - available to 
growing plants as is the case with well- 
rotted manures. The bacteria. contained 


Piacmwane| 


eanen | by 


“manure pile are different from those 
which prevail in the soil, and as a re-  ~ 
sult we are just as liable to. have in- | 
jurious action, resulting in loss, indeed — 


results, 
Production of Ammonia and Nitrates 


There are large numbers of bacteria : 
in manure when it is produced. These 


to from the stable floor, the air and 
surroundings generally, and a rapid 
fermentation of the manure results. 
Eyeryone is familiar with the sharp, 
pungent, ammoniacal odor which is given a 


has not been cleaned out for a day. 


which is given off from the manure, 
-liquid and solid, throwing the rapid 


When the ammonia is given off into — 


possible. 


If the fresh manure is thesis “hte 
a pile and the pile is kept well packed 
and moist the production of ammonia 
will not be so rapid as to be readily ~ 
thrown off into the atmosphere, Most — 
of it, as it is produced, will be seize 
upon by nitrous bacteria and changed 
into nitrites and these nitrites will be — 
changed by the nitric bacteria into | 
nitrie acid and finally result in nitrates. — 
| It is the presence of these nitrates in 
well-rotted manure that is. largely 
sponsible for well-rotted manure. 
quicker returns than fresh ma’ 
‘| when added to the soil. SO 

Everyone who has had anything to do: 
with horse manure will be familiar with 
the condition known as fire fianging. 
This fire flanging means loss, as it des- 
troys the plant food in the manure by 
a slow burning. The condition of fire _ 
fianging is due to a rapid oxidation in 
| fresh manure induced primarily by the 
digesting bacteria. In order for this to 
oceur, there must be abundant oxy- — 
} gen within the fresh manure pile, This 
condition exists when the fresh manure 
is loosely packed and strawy. In such — 
{| manure the bagteria will induce rapid — 


WILD OAT 
AND BARLEY 


ature. The temperature will continue — 
| to rise until eventually the bacteria 
which have started it are destroyed by 
the heat and much iof the manure 
rendered worthless. Therefore to pre- 
vent fire fianging the manure pile — 
should be kept well packed and moist 
for the purpose of excluding OXCEBBIVe 
quantities of air, 

There is not the danger from fire 
_| flanging in cow manure or pig manure 
| that there is in horse manure, as these 
| manures are naturally wet and compact. 
| Mixture of these with horse manure, — 
providing the whole is well packed, will 
thus reduce loss oe 4 Pangitee ees 
D., H. Jones. 


“Ask for it. 
This pe will last a 


“The soar inbvenibnt cannot 
cease to be missionary or its career is 
ended. 
simply by consideration of material 
benefit to those concerned; it should 


create a higher view of the roper con- 
—not nailed. : oS _ |] | ditions of a aoe oe ie inculcate 
- stra tp eaders ‘«Hoiland’’ Wild Oat Vacuum Washing Ma- Incubators é ence for goods which ‘are am 
ae Tank pistes . Separators chines . Shinn - Flatt Lightning er those conditions. It should 
Combination Threshers Lincoln Grinders — Lincoln Saws ‘Conductors | 
24x46 Separators . Smut and Pickling Bl adel! sare . Taand Roller and Packer _ 
a Heeinals ane ‘Machines ; 


prevail in the a 


bacterial action in the manure pile has _— 
“to be controlled if we are to get hest A 


numbers rapidly increase and are added 


off from an oceupied horse stall if it 


This odor is due to the free ammonia a 


action of the ammonifying bacteria, 


| the atmosphere it is lost, and so this. 
action should be prevented as far BR 4 


oxidation which causes a rise in ‘temper: © ny 


Tt cannot measure its results ~ 


Hoe 
Postcare 
for this 


West?? 
oo 
Seed: 


; Crees 
an 
[ees 


are white wih the thundering surf 
already the heavens grow 


black with the portents | 


of another storm. — 


ready governments are in | 


| the throes of internal con- 


'fliets.. Before 1919 has | 
passed no one can tell in 


what other lands long | 
ee the revolutionary | 
fervent may be working. — 
We in Canada will cer- _ 


| tainly not escape great 


| TEST YOUR SEED OATS- | 
; ‘Two-thirds of the Ont samples we 
have tested show frost. Good 
seed searcest in years. Get the 
y facts of the situation in onr con- 


‘densed catalogue and price lini - 
of farm seeds; thoroughly cleaned; _ 


"rigidly teated for germination; sh 


 gubject to your approval. Investigate 
) MAXO, BUPO and WING BRANDS, . 
| each sold on {ts merita and priced 


HARRIS McFAYDEN SEED CO.t= 


WINMIP Go 


“DY co-oper- 

: ating in buy- 
ing from us 
you save the mid- 
_ dleman’s profit— 
and secure a high- 


ergrade of lumber : 


=—also 


Facts to Consider 1 


High Quality | 
‘Immediate Shipment 
_ Low Prices 
{ Examination before 
Payment _ 
Cluborders Loaded — 
Separately 


it 
| 


| will 


8 power in its rapacity and rut 
| akin to the spirit of Germany. 


contented. 


changes. We ought not. | 
no other Enplish-” 
speaking land are the 


| workers so exploited by 


the’ schemers. In no 
other alleged democracy 
is government so com-— 
letely in the hands of a 
ew powerful interests. 
‘The most imperative duty 
of Canadians, now that 


the German wild beast —— 
has been cayed, is to free as 


their own country from th “mone: power, : 
cy ahaa 


: supreme 
task of all good people in Canada—to 
rescue. the nAonA government from the 


This is the immediate and the 


control of men bent on the perpetuation 


‘of their own enrichment and to make it a 
government of the people, by the people, 
and for the people. will 
done in our= constitutional, orderly, 
Anglo-Saxon way. It does not need to 
be done in any other. The common 
people are supreme. ‘They have only to 


assert their authority. But done it must 
-be and quickly, 


o: this conversion of” 
Canada from a nominal to a real democ- 
racy it is Saas yeas probable that the — 
coming year will make a large contribu- 
tion. ‘The greatest and most fruitiul of 
Canadian struggles will have begun. 
The people vs. “the big interests’ — 
that is the issue. By that men will be 
judged. By that the churches will stand 
or fall. This is the cleavage which will 
make the old parties meaningless, which 
create new ones, and let a fresh 
bracing wind into the devitalized atmos- 


1 phere of our Canadian political life. 


In this struggle our Christianity, that 
ad grown anemic and uninteresting, will 


recover its true and normal passion and 


‘energy. It had become easy, respectable, 
It made so little difference, 
It had ceased to be a disturbing, a restless 

a mysterious force. It no longer stirred 
the imagination and kindled wildly 
beautiful hopes. It had become for the 
most part wearisomely and depressingl 
common-place. It seemed to haye little 
aim except to minister comfort and con- - 
-solation, and its chief votaries seemed to 


: _ be the tired and the sick and the aged. 


R:—We furnish House 


ans Pree of Charge. 
your part. We consider 


No | 


|| tread common earth and — 
_ find a welcome in lowly 


| of our politics, the lifting 


to mean the if Of 
our Christianity, the 


Christian level. It can- 
“not then begin too soon. | 1, 9- 
Every patriotic Canadian \ 


Its efforts here and there to secure 


a 
fevival by giving young people a good 


| time did little to remove the sense of _ 


deadness. Even where it had fine and 
erous intentions it seemed to have 
Tittle ability to realize them, Its energies 
were largely absorbed in keeping the 
machinery running. : Ae 
But in this struggle for the redemption © 
of Canada from the speculator and the 
exploiter, for the emancipation of the 
workers from the profiteer, for the lifting 
up and beautifyin ‘the life of the 
common people, Christianity will glow 
and shine again with its old divine 
enthusiasm. It will not need the patron- 
age of the rich for it will be strong in the 
love of the crowd. It will come down 
from the clouds where it always grows 
sentimental and fanciful _ : : 
and will, like its Master, 


pee 


homes. ie 
The struggle is going | 
vitalizing of 


cleansing and enoblement — 


of our business life to a 


his thing will be ~ 
fortherichtobeeithe = = 
_ And so bearing in mind that the struggle - 
is not to wrest happiness from the rich 


‘Knowin 


of transition like this a. 


ales 
he job must be 


ani he flower 

thas aee ae grace of the. 
io on of it p 
‘calec shall the woh 
eles his ways,’ —James 


He wh 


+ He wou 
a hi 


vho 
‘oly 


‘lass | struggle, th 
‘growth of mere erivy and 


dao eel Tt_is not on — 
behalf of the poor against 
i Bahad 


| the rich. It is on 

- of the rich 
, 5) ly even than on be- 
| hal 


wealth, especially where 


itis ill-gotten, makesmen — 


uneasy and suspicious. 
‘It isolates and withers the 


human heart. The richer © 


the lonelier. Men who 


have by piratical methods | 


uired great wealth enjoy life more 


ac 
ans 


just. share. 


uality is always a 
poisonous. thing. ee i 


ean be happy or healt 


humble and brotherly, and it is very hard 


and to give it to the poor, but to find a 


better way of life for both, let all soldiers | | 
of the social revolution strive to keep 


their hearts clean from bitterness. They 


have no right to regard all the beneficiaries 


of the present unjust system as unjust, 
ly men who may seem little 
better than beasts of he are in a great 
measure victims themselves of an un- 


natural social order. Let us try to avoid 
all unnecessary antagonisms. Let us be | 


willing as long as we can to work with 
any and every one. Let us keep company 
with the man whose ways we think most 
mistaken and evil as fone 68 our differing 
ideas will permit us. Let us recognize 
that there may be a sincere devotion to 


the ee ee along with methods 
siples that may seem to us most 
incompatible with the common good, | 


and principles: 


RAH ~ : = 


men more | 


of the poor. Great ~ 


J AS 


Gs 


have far more satisfactory relations — 
to God and to their fellow-men when | 
they are gees something nearer their 


a t works more ill to. 
the higher than to the lower. Servility | 
_is not so evil a thing as pride.” No man 
yy who is not 


aS 


S 


3 


-_Uhumnense ese 


Bond and Debenture Corpora 
OF CANADA LIMITED 
Co 2 Beale oo 

_ VICTORY BONDS 


And Other High-Grade 


Let us as far as we can distinguish be- | i 


tween principles and persons. Principles 
may be as far apart as heaven and hell. 
Human beings never are. 


And let men and wortel whose eyes” 
have been thrilled with the glorious vision | 


of a new Canada of justice and equality 
and brotherhood be content, if need be, 


to win it section by section in peace and | 
good will, rather than in larger measure 


with less of good will. Complete social 


reconstruction—and it is becoming quite | 
clear that that is the goal—will involve — 
-some very revolutionary and drastic 


changes; consideration and patience may 
be carried too far; but there is in times 
great place for 


them, Nothing indeed can take their 
place. He who is willing to go slowly 


sometimes arrive quickest, 


must be freed. Our national government 


‘must become truly and fully national. | | 
The natural resources of Canada must be || 


developed and utilized for the general 


well-being. Political bosses and economic 


bosses must all go. The modern industrial 
feudalism must find its way like its 


‘ancestor, medieval feudalism, to the bone 
Pie tne ob ia not in 
But the Job is not going 


_to be easily or quel 


done. ‘The éssentia 


te receive 


“Make Bij 
Boring Wells 


tackled. Canada 


: Jone. thing |. 
_ is the spirit of considera- _ 
“tion and sympathy and 


Eh duon’ is 
stirs aaskenhuns oe cus 


2 Money 


_ fair play, in short, just | ¢ es 


_ the spirit of Jesus 


pereot | 
: height 


‘the thinkers, the cleat 
headed men of ordered 


VIDENCE is sponmulaiie in 


“yromoters” and sharpers with 
plausible — “investment” 
who are getting busy in this country 
as well as in the United States to reap 
what they are counting upon a8 the biggest 
harvest of easy money ever gathered in 
on this or any other continent. ‘They are 


| and Liberty bonds in the States. 


rn PatD Up, $15, 000, 000 a FUND, « ae 
3 BANKING SERVICE 


This Bank provides every facility for the prompt and efficient 
. transaction of all kinds of banking business, — 


negotiable document, such as stock in a 
Cod Liver Oil well, or the Lucky Dog 


Which is a thing swindlers are doing all 
the time, and getting away with the money 
of their victims. 
But if he sells him a “membership” i 
| a ‘farmers’ service company,’ or some 
other “company with a high-sounding 
name, the “rights” which the victim 
_receives under his ‘membership’ are so 
“vague and intangible and altogether so 
unreal that the swindler, who has done 
everything under the advice of his lawyer 
(a professional colleague in his criminality) 
that he can feel safe in snapping his fingers 
at_the law, and getting away. with his 
plunder 
The Minneapolis Journal prints a dis- 
patch from Washington which tells how 
officials of the United States government 
are at work ferreting out the operations 
oe of these swindlers, and how iavestigators 
have discovered a swindling organization 


"Christmas 1918 


_ The President, Directors and Olficers of 
‘THE ROYAL BANK 
OF CAN ADA ° 


deur to offer: to the Canc 
and Friends of the Bank Best 

Wishes for a Happy Christmas 
and a Prosperous New Year. 


its plans for operating in the States im- 
mediately south of the international 

boundary and of crossing over the line 
' and operating in this country. 

One of the investigators reports that a 
scheme is being planned for selling stock 
in a “manufacturing project’’ on this side 
of the line, and tells now the ‘‘sales 
manager,” in instructing his ‘‘stock sales- 
men” in their work, said there never was 
a time when suckers in this country had 
as much money to be cleaned up. To 
prospective “stock salesmen’ who asked 
questions about the legality of what they 
were to do the “sales manager’ replied 
that they need not worry. 

The dispatch from Washington in the 
Minneapolis Journal is as follows: 

Training the Swindling Salesmen 

‘Two schools for “blue sky” stock sales- 
men. to give men special training for 
| “fraudulent operations in the near future” 
have been established in a western federal 
reserve district, one of the exhibits in the 
annual report of the federal Capital 
Issues committee, just submitted to con- 
gress, charges, 

‘This section of the report quotes the 
report of one of the 12 district committees, 
dated November 26, 191s, as follows:— 

“Two schools for stock salesmen have 


CO-OPERATION 


he Banking Business has reduced co-operation to an exact science. 


_ The Bank of Toronto gladly eo- operates with. any individual or corpora- 
won in the orderly development of any productive enterprise. 


: ali It is just possible that the Bank of Toronto 


ee E organization may offer the precise co-operation you 


are looking for in the development of your business. — 
as A. WOODS, Western Biberiatendect, WINNIPEG, 
Canada Permanent Mortgage Corporation 7 
MONEY TO LOAN 


Repayable in Equal Yearly Payments 
Over a Long Term of Years 


; Hie more than Sixty Years this corporation has made use of the Amortiz: 
tion System for the benofit of ite clients. This is the plan of repayment By 
j ne annuities or instalments over a long term of years. It is prepared te 
: Lege money for terms of twenty years, when shorter terms are not preferred 
by the borrower, ansual repayments, including principal and mene 


o For se information apply to:— 


GEO. F. R. HARRIS, Manager 


Manitoba, Branch, Winnipeg, Man. 


W. T. CREIGHTON, Mer. 
Alberta Branch: 
EDMONTON, ALTA, 


fraudulent! operations in the near future.’’ 
| The district committee then quotes 
the report of one of its investigators, 
“who attended one of the schools, as 
follows:— 

“He (apparently the ccidielat of 
the school) assured me that there 
was a better field than in any of 
the stock sales propositions that 
have been advertised lately, owing 


law cannot touch them. 


A Craftily Planned Freud 
“The above,” says the district. com- 
mittee’s report, “relates to a proposition 
SS to sell farmers a 10-year membership 
EE CEE Ss EE ee eee ¢ __ |} in a farmers service company, for which 
WRITING TO ADVERTISERS PLEASE MENTION THE GUIDE 


\ | FE regard to the doings of the pate ee te 


echemes — 


blue sky commissions, because there ap: D> 


eis fea “money for anything so intangible as the 
out after Victory bonds in this country ying 


If a swindler sells his victim some article | 
or piec. of goods, or land, or a fraudulent 


brass mine, he puts himself within the law. 


of large proportions which is perfecting 


been established here to train men for 


suggestive article dealing 


to the safety and the fact that ee 


of great advantage to 


they are to pay $25. The company has» 


tie evade both oe committee and the 


pears to be no way in which we can reach 
a man who is_ willing to put up g 


rights he receives. under this plan.” 


Out After Canadian Farmers, Too 
‘The district committee then quotes the oe 
following from the report of an investigator 
_Who attended another of the oe “blue 
“pkey?” schools:—_ : 

“The sales manager ‘dave us a 1 tale AC 
on\ the financial conditions in this 
part of the country, as well as in 
Canada, dwelling particularly on 
the fact that there never was a time 
when all the suckers had the money 
they had at present. He said that — 
as soon as the local stuff is disposed 
of there will be a manufacturing 
project with several millions of, stock — on 
to sell, which will be doeued at Mouse a 
Jaw, Canada. — a 

The district committee's report. con- 
tains the following quotations from the 
reports of other investigators-—- 

‘J asked Mr. —— what jusedietion? 
the state or government had over their — 
proposition and what licenses they were 
required to take out and whether they _ 
had obtained them. He made the point — 
blank statement that they had no license — 
of any kind and that the state or govern- 
ment could not touch them and that they 

were not selling stock but memberships. oo 


Swindlers Making Bales of Money | 


_* “Mr, —— informed ine ‘that the sales: : 
men in their employ are making more — 


money. today than in any’ other organiza- 
tion of the same kind in the world, 
and that they did not have any men out 
who were making less than $300 a week, 
“Questions from the men in the — 
school in regard to the financial 
‘status of the company ‘or matters. 
affecting its future operations were 
nearly. always answered by ‘telling ae 
them ‘that is a matter for the de- 
partment under which it will come. 
You are not interested. You | 
selling stock’” a 
“Reports of this general Shursoter aes. : 


coming to us at the rate of two and three — 


every day,” continues the investigator's . 
report, “and I confess. that Ido not know ~ 
how we are going to deal with ‘them 
without some. legal authority which is 


lacking at present. It is more than clear 
‘that at these western centres the sharpers 


and swindlers 2nd promoters are petting, : 
ready for a big. harvest. es on 


A New Kind er Bank Official - 


The December number of the Banker- 
Farmer, the publication of he Agricultural 4 
Commission of the American Bankers’ — 
Commission, contains aie aera and 
with the service _ 
which is being given by th Minined men 
whom some banks in the United States” 
have appointed with a view to the mutual 
co-operative advantage of the banks them- — 
selves and of their clients by the promo- 


tion of progressive and profitable agricul. _ 
Wea mene and activities. 


his country not a few but several y 
ree of branch banks do more or 


ee of this. service, notably in the organ- 


ization of boys’ and girls’ pig clubs and 
calf clubs, but it cannot be said | 

that this is a general practice. f 

of the States this sort of actis 
part of bank managers 
a development of co-operatior sy 
progress and — 


prosperity of any dist 
managers of banks is, 
wan from the work ork of 


: ut is at i tie sans tite at Gatorant 
fom the cakc ones Point a ea 


as well:-—_ 


_ The Bank's “Ag. a ‘Man 


ay Tt, was not until the Plymouth bank 
in Brockton, Massachusetts, took the step 
of emp ploying a trained man in the science 
of agriculture to assist their farmer clients. 
| that bankers began to realize the impor- 
tance and benefits accruing from this new 
-form of service. 
“There are now. approximatel: twenty- 
' five agriculturalists emplo eee ry banks 
throughout the Uni These 
men make it their eee va only to 
give the bank’s patrons the benefit of 
their service, but everyone in the com-. 
munity in which the banks serves as well. 
“There are two. sources of obtaining 
new business. One by taking an account 
away from the other bank and the other 


poe 1869 : : 
OFFICE — MONTREAL 


$25,000, 000 : 
14,000,000 : 
apne ‘FARMERS AGRICUL 
We call your attention a the Ban 
: Institution. 


Are you in temporary need of captalt Are you laggin 
output because of the necessary unds to een it of may 100. 
efficiency or to increase it? 


This Bank. is ac acter to aoe develop every Jeelamate. Dui 
activity. 


oo Sir Herbert S. Holt. 

‘Vice-President and panes 
‘Director, BE. L. Pease. 

General Manager, U. B. Neill. 


Supervisor of Central Western 
as Hohort pecpbell 


— by a careful plan of assistance in build- 


a GENERAL BANKING 
BUSINESS TRANSACTED 


- SALESMEN AND DISTRICT ; 


MANAGERS WANTED 


Merchants’ Casualty Co. 


ELECTRIC RAILWAY CHAMBERS 


WINNIPEG, MAN. 


. most liberal Health and Accident 
‘Policy in Canada at $1.00 per month. 


| Equitable Trust Company 


a Raw Land and Improved Farms 


For Sale on Easy Terms 


or - on erop payment plan if the purchaser 
has a complete outfit free of encumbrances. 


‘FOR FULL INFORMATION ENQUIRE 


of the 


| EQUITABLE. TRUST COMPANY 


333 MAIN STREBT, WINNIPEG, MAN. 


Phone Main 2090. 


= oe ay 
“Present!” 


| AN executor ought — 


to be available to 


assume immediate con- 
trol of property entrust- 
ed to him by will. A 


“personal executor may 


] be sick or at a distance 


when needed. A Trust 
Company - is always 
“present.” 


: Vlationat | 

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e Capital 
7 paid up, $1, 500, 000 


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| offices, banks and other 


ing up the country, such that the increased 


wealth will develop into increased deposits 


and it is along the latter broadminded 
principle upon which the banteapricill: 
turist. works. 


Hand in Hand With the Farmers 
“He makes it his duty { to get acquainted 
with the farmers and on a reconnoissance 
he learns the problems of the country and 
individual groups. He will busy atity 
with giving the farmer real material aid : 


“and the benefit from his training and: 


work very much as a county agricultural 
agent would, and his duties may be di- 


vided into three sub heads—indirect ad- | 


vertising, direct advertising and agricul- 
tural development. 

“The value of the work of the cout: 
agriculturalist is now well known, and 
there is not a county on record where the 
agent has not been able to pay for his 
éxpense and salary many time, even 
into hundreds of times, and with the 
closer touch and more material aid that 
the bank-agriculturalist can give, the re- 
sults should accrue in benefits to the com- 
munity as well as to the bank.” 


War Stamps and Thrift Cards 


Thrift stamps are now on sale at post 
authorized 
agencies, These stamps cost 25 cents 
and should be stuck on the thrift cards 
obtainable wherever the stamps are sold. 

Sixteen stamps attached to a thrift 
card and a small sum for accrued interest 
entitle the holder to a war-savings stamp 
redeemable for $5 by the Dominion 
Government on January 1, 1924. 

The cost of war-savings stamps varies 


according to the time of purchase. One — 


purchased before February 1, 1919, will 
cost $4; whereas, in February, 1919, the 
cost will be $4.01, and for eac ‘succeeding 


month an additional charge of one cent. 
will be made. ‘This additional charge 
represents the accrued interest on. the 


stamp from January 1, 1919. 
_ These war-savings stamps _ should’ be 
collected on the war-savings certificates 


supplied by the government, until the 


total of ten has been reached. . 

The certificates will then be Gauiveieal 
to a government bond for $50 payable on 
January 1, 1924. No interest is allowed 
on. thrift "stamps, but the war-savings 


stamps earn approximately 434 per cent. | 


per annum. ~As an example, a stamp 
purchased in January, 1919, will cost $4, 
and will be worth $5 on January dy 1924. 


‘The difference of $1 represents the ac- 


cumulated interest for the intervening 
five years.” 


War-savings carbifestes may be regis- 


tered or payable to bearer and are re- 
deemable at any time, the surrender value 
increasing from $4 in January, 1919, by 
monthly additions of one cent or more 
until the final value of $5 is reached in 
January, 1924. The present issue is fixed 
at $50,000,000 and is exempt from 
Dominion taxation. 

In the United States and Great Britain 
hundreds of millions have been invested 
in these stamps, which are still being sold 
in great quantities. 


ee Loan Pricaa 
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he first few days of trading in the 


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mnean a speedy upward 1 revision of prices. w 


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as authorities in both economics 
and constitutional history, Ed- 
ward Porritt has made a special 
place for himself as one who writes 
with authority in regard to Canadian 
affairs, 

His ‘‘Sixty Years of Protection in 
Canada,’’ a book well-known to most 
readers of The Guide, is a masterpiece 
of clear and comprehensive presentation 
of Canadian fiscal policy and economic 
developments <ousequent upon it since 
the middle of the last century. Among 
other hooks of Mr. Porritt’s which 
hold positions of permanence in the 
world of books are ‘‘The Englishman 
at Home’’ and ‘‘ The Unreformed House 
of Commons.’’ There has just come 
from the World Book Company, of 
Yonkers, N.Y.,.a new book by Mr, 


Worth More Than It Costs 


“HIS watch can be bought at any dealer’s for $3.00. 
It is different from the ordinary watch because it 
tells time in the dark, 


Real Radium in the substance on the hands and 
figures makes them glow brightly, no matter how dark 
it is, and this glow lasts for the lifetime of the watch. 


You do not need to strike a match to see the hour. 


On the farm, in mines, factories, camps, for outdoor 
work or exercise, you will find a Radiolite much more 
useful than the ordinary watch. It is indeed worth 
more than it costs. 

More than 50 million Ingersoll watches have been sold during 
the last 25 years, and Ingersolls can be bought in any town or 
village just the same as in the big cities—same high quality, same 
low price. Ask for Ingersoll Radiolites—$3.00—at any dealer’s. 


Look for the words Ingersoll Radiolite on the dial. 


ROBT, H. INGERSOLL & BRO. 
128 Bleury Street, . Montreal. 


Canada, Its Government and Its Poli- 
tics.’ 


‘*Makes Mighty Interesting Reading’’ 


This book, written to be one of the 
‘series of Government Handbooks for 
use in colleges and universities—which 
is being brought out under the editorial 
| supervision of David Prescott Barrows, 
Professor of Political Science (on leave) 
and formerly Dean of the Faculties of 
the University of California, now 
Colonel in the United States Army, and 
Thomas Harrison Reed, Assistant Pro- 
fessor of Government in the University 
of California and City Manager of San 
Jose—has the distinction of being a text 


ing’’ for the general reader, 

It is a workmanlike book, and one 
that cannot fail to add | See! to 
Mr. Porritt’s reputation for being both 
thorough-going and interesting. It 
deserves special recommendation to 
members of the Grain Growers’ Asso- 
-¢iations as a most excellent book from 


formation on Canada’s institutions of 
government and political history. * 

Rapidly and comprehensively Mr. 
Porritt in his opening chapters sum- 
marizes Canadian history, and gives 
a bird’s-eye glance over all the over- 
seas self-governing Dominions in the 
British Empire, and then proceeds to 
give the reader a clear-cut idea of Can- 
ada’s place in the world. After deal- 
ing with the physical features of the 
Dominion, the distribution of its popula- 
tion and its geographic and economic 
divisions, he deals with the conditions, 
economic, social and otherwise, which 
shaped the development of the Canadian 
eae ‘and affected their day-by-day 
ife.. 

There are chapters on the distribution 
of power between the Dominion and 
Provincial Governments, on the Gov- 
ernor-General and Cabinet, on the 
House of Commons at Ottawa, the Sen- 
ate, Parliament at work, the Provincial 
Legislatures and Governments and other 
details of our system of government—all 
written so as to be complete and author- 
-itative and at the same time filled with 
interest as well as instruction. The 
chapters that deal with the country’s 
fiseal and political history are specially 
good. 4 


The Opposition Leader’s Salary 


Desiring to quote a specimen page or 
two treat eg Porritt’s book, the re- 
viewer finds himself wanting to quote 
more pages than merely the one or 
two to which he is confined by the limits 
of this article. Writing of the extra- 
constitutional novelty created at Ottawa 
in 1905, by the act providing a salary 
for the leader of the opposition, which 
is a thing unknown in the British Parlia- 
ment or any other parliament in 
the British Empire outside the one at 
Ottawa, Mr. Porritt writes:— 

‘*The method by which the leader of 


, the House as well as in the Barn 
you know how cy farm work Why we 
_& by electric motors and gasoline engines. Sak 
10tors vag rats 
‘Nescetane inc Ce chek do ecard 


Use Power in 


Runs by 
Motor or Engine 


<a gee ne 

. ower Bench Washer 

heaviest or Shee ve with pe tention § 
& ‘or itself over. 

Mae Wiknewel Wake loc pateuen = 

- St. Marys, Ontario 40 


Dept U, 


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DEPARTMENT OF SERVIOR 
ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE OF CANADA 


The Royal Navsl Oollege is established for the purpose of 
imparting a complete education in Naval Soience. 

Graduates are qualified to enter the Imperial or Osnadian . 
Bervices as midshipmen. A Naval career is not compulsory how- 
ever. For those who do not wish te enter the Navy the course 
provides a thorough grounding im Applied Science and ip ac- 
cepted se qualifying for entry ae second year students in 
Canadian Universities. 

The acheme of education aims at developing discipline with 
ability to obey and take charge, a high sense of honour, both 
al BME ge Bag rat a 

athematics, Na on, History ern Mages, as 
basis for general development er further specialization. 

Candidates must be between their fourtesnth and sixteenth 


birthdays on July 1st following the examination. ee 7 
mrtiowlars of Saty. ma: her obit on application to the the opposition is chosen is also an 
Department of the Naval eo, Ottawa. innovation on precedure at Westminster, 


He is elected at a caucus which is 
attended only by the members of the 
opposition in the House of Commons. 
Senators who are of the opposition do 
not attend the caucus; and except very 
infrequently senators, whether sup- 


G. J. DESBARATS, 
Deputy Minister of the Naval Service. 


Ja 8, 1918, 
Onprtsted” thutaicn of hy advaraomant wil aot be 
or, : “ 


MONG writers who have won for: 
A themselves recognized standing 


Porritt, ‘‘Eyolution of the Dominion of — 


book which, as Horace Greeley used to © 
say, ‘‘makes mighty interesting read- . 


which to obtain full and accurate in- . 


allowance of $7,000.’ 7? 


building. rae ; < 
“‘The caucus is an extra-constitu- 
tional institution which has never been . 
established at Westminster by either of 
the two historic parties in British poli- — 
tics, In Canada it is admittedly an 
importation from the United States. 
‘It was well established in the era 
of the United Provinces at least as 
early as 1854; and it was generally in 
use in the United Provinces, in the 
constituencies, as’ well as at Ottawa, 
at Confederation. = 
‘*Both the Hattie supporting the 
government and the party in opposi- 
tion’ maintain the caucus system. Mem- 
bers of the cabinet, who are of the 
House of Commons, discuss in the caucus 
of their party the policies, bills, plans 
and sometimes the appointments of the 
government, ese 
‘‘In the caucus of the opposition at 
the opening of the first session of a new 
parliament, the leader of the party in’ 
the House of Commons is elected, and | 
the attitude to be taken towards gov- _ 
ernment measures and policies is deter- 
mined. ‘ 


Secrecy of the Caucus 


““The caucus at Ottawa, while ad- 
mittedly patterned after the caucus 
at Washington, is at least one stage ~ 
behind ‘the caucus of the House of 
Representatives in development. The — 
constituents of a member of the House 
of Commons have as good a constitu- 
tional right to be informed of what he 
says and how he votes in caucus, as of | 
his speeches.and votes in the House of — 
Commons. ch : 

‘“At Washington since 1913, this right 
of constituents has been recognized. 
Representatives of the press are ad- 
mitted to caucus. At Ottawa the rights 
of constituents in this matter have been 
spaotnt for fifty years. A caucus is | 
always behind closed doors; and there, | 
is no full and independent public record 
of its proceedings, as there is of debates. 
and votes in the House of Commons. = | 

“«Mhe act of parliament of 1905, which | 
authorizes the payment of a salary to. | 
the leader of the opposition, when it 
was before the house as a bill, was | 
treated as an agreed or non-contentious | | 
measure. It was a bill for increasing }} 
the allowances of members and senators | 
from $1,500 to $2,500; establishing ( 
pensions of $3.500 a year for ex-members | 
of the cabinet; and providing a salary \ 
for the leader of the opposition. (The | 


“pension section of the act of 1905 


aroused widespread popular indignation, _ 
and was repealed in 1906). eee 

‘TAll the details of the bill had been 
eee on at a caucus of the supporters -| 
of the government, and at a caucus of | 
the members of the opposition; and as j 
both political parties were satisfied | 
with all its provisions, the measure fell 
hey the category of non-contentions 

ills. 

‘<The circumstances under which the 
bill was submitted to the house by the 
government—the era of good feeling in 
which it was born—explain the brevity | 
and looseness of the section by virtue || 
of which the salary of the leader of the | ' 
opposition is paid. It neither defines 
an Ai acai nor indicates by whom 
and how the leader of the opposition | 
shall be chosen. pias \ 

‘* All that the section declares is that 
‘to the member occupying the recog- 
nized position of leader of the opposi- 
tion in the House of Commons, there 


shall be payable an additional sessional | 


ae 


The Election of 1911 _ 

Dipping into another chapter of the - 
book, we come upon this:s— = 
‘«The election of 1911, which returned 
133 Conservatives to the House of Com- 

mons, as compared with 86 Liberals. 
demonstrated to the world what had 
been known at Ottawa since 1879. No | 
government that is committed to the 
National policy, and that becomes de- | 
endent on the electoral, newspaper and * 
nancial ead of the manufacturer: | 
and the various interests allied with the - 
manufacturers, can enter on any agree: 


Growers’ 


oy a: ip a4 

United States if the 
' even the slightest scaling down of the 
duties that protect Canadian manufac- 
turers from competition from the United 
States. aes 
- **The Laurier government of 1896- 
' 1911 knew this fact as well as any 
- Conservative government from 1878 to 
1916. But from 1905:to 1910 the or- 


ganized grain growers were increasing 
rapidly in numbers, and were exercising 


a growing influence on politics in the 
prairie provinces, | i 

“This fact, and a fact of much 
pen to the government, was brought 
. home to Laurier and the Liberal party 
in the summer of 1910, Laurier, in 
July and August, made a political tour 
_ of the prairie provinces. He was re- 
ceived by the grain growers in a 
critical rather than an admiring mood, 
with an absence of reserve towards 
- leaders in political life at Ottawa that 
was quite new in the history of the 
Dominion. Representatives of the Grain 
Associations at half-a-score 
of places between Winnipeg and Calgary 
recalled to the premier the pledges that 


the Liberal party had given to the 


Dominion at the Ottawa convention of 
1893. = 

The Grain Growers’ Associations 

‘(Laurier was reminded ‘with much 
~ bluntness of utterance that the tariff 
_ pledges had been repudiated by the 
_ Liberal government in 1897 and: 1907. 
He was told that the Grain Growers 
were previously disappointed at this 
_ repudiation; and told with much em- 
phasis that the Grain Growers’ Associ- 
ations were intent on lower duties in 
the Dominion tariff—that lower duties 
were essential to the success of the grain 
growing business in the prairie prov- 
inces—and also informed that the Grain 
Growers were still intent on reciprocity 
with the United States. 

‘“‘The Grain Growers were thus in- 


sistent in their demands for lower duties 


and for el ee and during Laur- 
ier’s politica an 


-, movement that the Liberal party had 
_ ehampioned for thirty years before it 
went over to protection in 1897. With 
the manufacturers and bankers and the 
_ transport interests denouncing reciproc- 

ity—declaring that it would end the 
connection with Great Britain—the odds 
were against the government; and it 
encountered defeat in a cause that both 
Liberals and Conservatives had contin- 
uously advocated from 1846 to 1896,’’ 

There is not space here for further 
extracts from Mr. Porritt’s interesting 
and: informative book, whose merits 
have been only lightly touched upon in 
this article. It is, within its compass, 
decidedly the best book there is on the 
subject set forth on its title-page, 
‘‘Byolution of the Dominion of Can- 
ada, Its Government and Its Politics.’’ 
- It closes with a list of ‘‘sources and 
authorities’’ and an index, which add to 
the completeness and convenience of 
the book. ‘ 


Our Resolution : 


Let us ‘resolve this day to begin life 
anew. To start with a clean mind and 
8 clean heart and a clean body. -To do 
- all things right and to do right in all 
things. To love honesty, justice and 
liberty, to teach them and to practice 
them, but to despise injustice, dukonaty 
-and tyranny. Let us help the weak and 
encourage the helpless, and divide our 
joys with the poor of the world, that 
they may know that we are not above 
them or. beneath them, but with them 
and of them, and that all men are born 
equal, and all hold kinship with God.. | 
Let us be cheerful and éven-tempered 
and not afraid to smile. Let us be ever 
‘thoughtful of others and unselfish in our 


Let us resolve to seek always the 


_ truth and fearlessly condemn the false; 


_ to so live that our daily lives shall be an 
open book, with nothing to fear, nothing 
_ to hide; to honor virtue, age and woman- 
hood; to obey our laws; and above all 
things let us show our loyalty to our 
5 vee Sra faith in our -—Ralph 
Raye ee 2 


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$5.29 for $4.00 


“The Dominion of Canada, in accordance with Order-in-Council P.C. 
No. 2462, offers for sale in Money-Order Post Offices, Banks 
and other authorized places, the 1919 issue of 


-War-Savings Stamps 


Government, an excellent investment for small savings, and 
a strong incentive to every-day economy.’’— 


Sir THOMAS WHITE, Minister of Finance. | 


WAR-SAVINGS STAMP is Canada’s promise to pay Five 
Dollars on January Ist, 1924. It costs you $4.00 if purchased 
before January 31st, 1919, and the purchase price increases 

whe cent each month after that date. : 

THRIFT STAMPS are also on sale 

and cost 25 cents each. These bear 


no interest, but they help you to save 
to buy a W-S.S. ~ 


Sixteen Thrift Stamps on a. Thrift 
Card will be exchanged for one War- 
. Savings Stamp. 


The difference of one dollar represents 
the high rate of interest earned. 
W-S.S. are a splendid investment for 
every man, woman and child in the 
Dominion of Canada, 
Certificates are issued providing spaces 
for ten W-S.S., and in order to protect 
you against loss through fire, theft or 
other cause, you may register a cer- 
tificate, with one or more W-S.S. 
\ attached, at any Money-Order Post 
Office. <A Certificate registered in your 
name is of no value to anyone but 
yourself, 


SOLD WHEREVER THE SIGN IS DISPLAYED 


-You have all the resources of the 
Dominion back of your investment in ~ 
‘War-Savings Stamps, and if at any 
time circumstances compel you to ~~ 
realize on your investment, yourmoney _ 
is available. 


Cate 


Get into the habit of reading advertisements. Tt Pays 


Jeral Bureau of Health 
QHERE are indications that the 
government will again be asked to 


i establish a federal bureau of 
E health. There are signs, too, that 
: the government will lend a more 


ear this year to the requests of 
petitioners. Some weeks ago the 
ito. Globe had the following an- 
cement: “The national epidemic of 
mish influenza, which has hit the 

pital particularly hard, has been an 
foot lesson to the cabinet ministers here 
to the need of a federal health depart- 
ent. A tentative agreement was reached 
y the cabinet some time ago to organize 


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| stood that parliament will be asked at 
e coming session to pass a bill creating 
spartment of public health, to be ad- 
istered by the minister of immigration 
ad colonization.” 
This is a perennial request of the 
ederal government, but this year shows 
vidence that the hardy perennial 
} to bear fruit. The Canadian . 
Medical Association, as well as 
actically every woman’s organ- 
zation in Canada, has been work- 
ing towards a federal bureau of 
ealth. Perhaps at no time has 
the need of such been more 
‘onounced than at the present. 
time, just after a wave of epidemic 
yhich was more fatal than the 
ar and prior to subsequent 
aves. In fact, unless there can 
concerted federal action there 


ever been famine and pestilence. 
‘The titanic scale of warfare in 

hich the world has just been 
engaged, if history is to repeat 
ivself, must probably mean pestil- 
ence and famine on @ comparative 
eale. To be forewarned is to be 
forearmed. History supplies the 
warning. Expediency and neces- 
sity will supply the armaments. 
It is obvious that the necessity 
and expediency are upon us. 
Only a very obtuse government 
ean afford to disregard the warn- 


: Miss Com Hind, commenting 
‘somewhere recently, says, ‘There 
in Canada a very wonderful 
| Health of Animals Act which 
worked .marvellously, so. marvel- 
lously that when f 

JY 
the most contagious diseases known 
among animals, and when millions of 
ollars worth of livestock. was sacrificed 
in order to get rid of the disease, not a 
ingle ease occurred in Canada, though 
here was considerable going and coming 
etween the two countries. Had Canada 
oaay a federal system for the care of 
the health of the people in any sense as 
adequate as they have for the care of 
inimals, the Gees epidemic: could not 
ave reached the gigantic proportions 
it has done.” 

Here is food for thought. 


Miss Hind’s Greeting 

Among the pretty Christmas cards 
vhich found their way to The Country- 
woman editor’s desk was a six-page folder 
tom Miss ©. Cora Hind, of the Manitoba 
Free Press. It was a chat in Miss Hind’s 
yest style on her neighborhood. She 
ted the blinds and her friends saw her 
ighbors through wider and more under- 
tanding eyes. There are delectable little 
sketches of the grocer who is Icelandic, 
f the fruit vendor who is Italian, the 
mutcher who is Scotch and the coal-man 
ho is Slav. There is a little skit about 
he “handy man about the house’’—only 


+ soft Pnglish voice that all your iron 
as good’ as new. ‘Then Miss Hind’s 


ton terrier and the adorable property 
the janitor’s little son, Roger. ‘There 
paragraphs 


theatre,’ and a very little 
is pride—on what “Our neighbor- 


penn: 


our years ago” the 
States was over-run with one of, 


this time it is a girl—who tells you in 
eds is a new “helement” and it will be. 
ends are introduced to Jingo who is a 
on “Our block,” which 
een pecularities; on “Our 
eraph-—not boastful, but filled with — 


hood” has contributed that this and every 
neighborhood might for ever after live in 
Her clone 


] paragraph tells us that her 
neighborhood is j i 


is just middle-class, and 


like thousands of others, and we have a 


picture of our own, “Ours is just a very 
ordinary middle-class neighborhood where 
everyone has somé business and is attend- 


Ing to it. Even our soldier men were all 


privates. There are many thousands of 
Me such neighborhoods in Canada, and 
rom them some day in the future will be 
welded a 


c great, strong, free Canadian 
nation.” | : : : ‘ 


The Woman’s Party 


It is with deep regret that one reads 
of the formation of a Woman’s Party. 
In the first place, it is a backward step 
to take in Canada, whateyer it may prove 
to be in England. Canadian men have 
given women full political liberty, so 
why a Woman’s Party? The. over- 
comprehensive program is certainly not 
confined to women’s particular subjects. 
We have our National Council of Women 
for the expression of women’s views. We 

me Hoe 


It is Coming—The Good Old Summer Time, 


need more co-operation, not less, with | 


our fellow-citizens of the opposite sex. 
Again, whilst women of every shade of 


political or class opinion can unite and- 


co-operate through such a medium as 


‘the National Council, in many respects 


it would be impossible for women of the 
Dorninion to unite politically except upon 
a very limited and non-contentious plage 
form. Whilst economic injustice prevails 
in Canada to.the extent it does, there is 
bound to be class struggle, and the women 
will be just as naturally divided as the 
men. : 


eA had a Woman’s Party been a_ 


practical scheme, the program is_ ill- 
advised. What amount of public opinion 
has warranted many of the sentiments 
contained therein? The program con- 


cludes upon questions scarcely under-. 
stood by the majority of women. These 


same questions could have been placed 
before the women of Canada for stud 

and discussion by the National Council. 
That is its principal function. — 

Again, portions of the program are 
contrary to the platform or opinions of 
many progressive bodies in the Dominion. 
As a rural woman, I will confine myself 
to two or three vital questions wherein 
the Woman’s- Party program is con- 
tradictory to the new proposed platform 
of the Canadian Council of Agriculture, 
which comprises the great farmers 
organizations from coast to coast, number- 
ing. shopeends of farm women in its 

liations. 5 


International Relations 
In a clause dealing with ‘international 


relations,” the Canadian Council of Agri-. 
culture states, “Peoples 


must unite to 
achieve a peace which will lessen old 
eauses of conflict.. To this end we urge 


pai er t 
work, and other lines of political action, . 


y 


the establishment of a League of Nations. 
. . 4 Efforts must be made to prevent 
the division of the world into warring 
economic camps, and exclusive economic 
leagues.”’ This is directly contradictory 
to the sentiments on the same question 
in the Woman’s Party program. 


Labor 


The Canadian Council of Agriculture 


exhibits a much broader and more 
sympathetic attitude towards labor than 
the Woman's Party, recommending the 
“adoption of the pee of co-operation 
as the guiding spirit in the future relations 
between capital and labor.” 


Canada’s National Position 


The Canadian Council of Agriculture 
is opposed to “any attempt to centralize 
imperial control.’ Imperial control is 
one of the chief ‘reforms’ (?) that the 
Woman’s Party advocates. : 

These are but three, of many, points 


to illustrate how impossible it would be | 


for the organized farm women to identify 
themselves with the Woman’s Party. It 
would be a very profitable undertaking 
_ if farm women would procure a 
“copy of the Canadian Council of 
Agriculture pears and also 
that of the Woman’s Party, and 
make the comparison of the two 
ground for serious study this 
winter, It would help us, and 
help Canada.—Violet McNaugh- 
tan, Hon. Sec., Saskatchewan 
W.8.G.G.A. 


Further Organization 


Organization seems to be in the 
air these days. Certainly every 
day sees a new one. They are 
talked of all along the line from 
Ladies’ Aids to the League of 
Nations. ‘But the newest is to 
come from the American Woman’s 
Suffrage Association, who is be- 
ginning a movement to organize 
the women voters of all the world 
along certain definite lines. The 
Woman Citizen, the official organ, 
contains the following leading 
article in its issue of December 14: 

“So nearly is the struggle for 
woman suffrage over in the 
United States of America that 
the National American Suffrage 
Association is already lookin 
ahead to the day when it sha 
schedule itself to go out of busi- 
ness. To this end the association 
has voted to extend an invitation 
to the women voters of the 15 states in 
which women are fully enfranchised to 
meet in conjunction with the association's 
next annual convention, the date of which 
is to be announced later. The objects 
to be served by the meeting are:-— 

‘1__The organization of a non-partisan 
National Council of Women Voters to 
take the place of the National American 
Wor.an Buffrage Association when its 
work is finished, in order that there may 
be an auxiliary from the United States 
to the International Woman Suffrage 
Alliance. 

“2—-To discuss and adopt a national 
charter of Women’s Civil Rights which 
when written into the laws of the severa 
states, will unify, correct, modernize and 
improve the laws which especially con- 
cern women. : 

*3-__'To discuss and adopt a charter of 
Children’s Rights which, when written 
into the laws of the several states, will 
unify and improve the laws which especial- 
ly concern children. 

“4 "To discuss and adopt a program of 
forward movements whereby women 
voters may aid effectively in improving 
and in unifying election methods, cam- 
usages, so-called Americanization 


as proposed, — ‘ : 
“Similar organization will undoubtedly 
be effected in other countries wherein 
women have been enfranchised; and the 
International Alliance may see fit. to 
divide itself into similar sections. This 


' international group of women voters, in- 


cluding, as it will, women of the United 
States England Scotland, Ireland, Wales, 
Canada, Australia, New 
Bint Ane oak eee 
Hungary, Austria, and probably France 
and Teal, will be able to wield an ioe 


. of germs, is advocated. 


land, Sweden, ‘ 
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, 


woman suffrage in other European cou 
tries which are now struggling towar 


some form of representative government. a 


Women at Khaki University __ 
“A dispatch from Ottawa last week says: 
In response to a request from the men_ 
taking the agricultural course the khaki 
university of Canada in London is organ- 
izing a division for the wives of soldiers. . 
Before coming to Canada they will be 
made acquainted in a general way with © 
the work which falls to the lot of a Can- 
adian farmer's wife. eA a 
“In addition to the household science — 
course, the courses in horticulture and 
poultry will be extended to the wives of 
‘the soldiers who are fitting themselves _ 
to follow agricultural pursuits in Canada, 
Mrs. G. C, Cunningham, formerly domes- 
tic science instructress in Manitoba, has — 
been pene in charge of this important . . 
branch of the overseas instructional work.” _ 


Anti-Flu Regulations —s_—T 
Anti-flu. regulations, ueulees by a 
recent, gathering of public health officers — 
of America at Chicago, are embodied in — 
the official report. of the convention re- - 
ceived yesterday by Dr. M. Stuart Fraser, 

provincial health officer for Manitoba. 


The doctors admit practical ignorance 
of the nature of the flu germ. : 

The report lays more stress on general — 
precautions and less on closing specific 
places of meeting. - ; ; 


Precautionary measures to be taken in 


» anticipation of a recurrence of the plague 


are suggested. : 


These include enactment of strict laws 
which health officers will be able to en- 
force at short notice; forming of an 
emergency fund to bring immediate | 
relief, a permanent- organization and 
centralized control of sources of aid, and. 
wide publicity to the common methods — 
of prevention, ; ie 


’ Prevention, the report says, includes re- 
ducing opportunities of infection, strength- 
ening resistance and observance of general 
health rules. ~ : “ 


. Immediate legislation forbiddin cough- 
ing, sneezing and spitting in public with- 
out precautions to guard against spread 


In the event of recurrence of the 
epidemic the following measures are | 
suggested :— AOR 


Immediate ban on all non-essential a 
gatherings. Bae 


_ Hygienic restrictions on essential gather- _ 
ings. ; : eee 
Reduction of number and attendance | 
_ of church services. Sux hes 
Closing schools only if weather con- — 
ditions and the prevalence of the malady. 
among children warrant. Wactors to be — 
considered are whether absence of teachers — 
,and pupils through sickness will reduce — 
class efficiency any way and whether 
teachers are needed as nurses. oe 


Closing of dance halls, saloons and pool- 
rooms as soon as crowding appears. 

Theatres, the report says, can be used — 
as means of educating the public in-health — 
measures, and should\ not. be closed _ 


excepting in emergency. 
Street cars should be avoided. 


Barbers, dentists and all in hospitals 
should be. ordered to wear flu-masks. 
General use of them on the street is also 
advocated. uaa eae 


Immediate isolation of patients, ae 


Alcohol, the report declares, is of no — 
value. Spraying or gargling the throat 
is of no usé as the throat membranes _ 
cannot stand antiseptics strong enough 
to be of use, ae nae 

Dr. M. Stuart Fraser was the only — 
Canadian doctor present on the committee _ 
for preventative measures and pointed out 
the benefits of a number of precautionary — 
measures which had proved successful in 
Manitoba. On comparing figures, Dr. _ 
Fraser said yesterday, Manitoba was 
found to have escaped easiest of any — 
province or county on the continent. == 


that th 


RE yOW 
{I relaxing somewhat I suppose we 
N ‘will go to some of ihe ine 


*% war dishes. 
eas Ips 

useful things, and 
ROIs MiaboE, Histon 


get many whole- 
that will always have 


a place in our menus. We have learned 


that many of the wheat substitutes are 


_ just as palatable and more healthful than 


amount of sugar we used before the war. 
One of our readers has sent in some good 


them usefu. 


-_Afflbs, potatoes - 


too much white flour. 
many excellent meat substitutes and that 
we can cook and cook well with half the 


potato ete age I am sure you will find 


Potato Soup 


x 2 quarts seasoned stock 

Boil“and ‘mash the potatoes smoothly, 
and gradually add them to the boiling 
stock. Press through a sieve and simmer 


Hiried bread 


for five minutes. Serve with fried bread. — 


food restrictions are 


lis) The conservation — 
campaign has taught us many 


That there are — 


Potato Cake 
2 cups flour _ _ ‘Milk or water 
Bi ns “1 teaspoon salt 
. powder | 1 cup mashed potatoes > 


Mix the flour with the salt and baking 


_ powder, then add the finely mashe 


potatoes and enough water or milk to 
make a soft dough. Turn the whole into 
a well greased frying pan and cook slowly, 
tairning occasionally, and adding a little 
more lard each time until the cake is a 
delicate brown, and well cooked through. 
This should take about thirty minutes. 
Spread with butter and eat while’ hot 


Potato Doughnuts 


2 cups hotimashed po- Flour : 
tatoes. : ; 2 cups sugar | 
1 cup milk : 3 2 tablespoons butter 
S level teaspoons: bak- «1: teaspoon vanilla 
ing powder |» : 


|B Mix as usual, add flour enough to make 


{ 
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1 quart mashed pota- 
tote ess 

> very hot fat. 

i ‘Salt ana pepper - 


2 eups flour ‘ : 
- 2 cups mashed potatoes 
> Salt | ‘ 


a soft dough. Roll out one-half inch 
as fry in hot fat. The potatoes keep 
- the 
longer than doughnuts made with 


oughauts soft. These keep moist 


eres. : 


Potato Croqueties 


Butter, size of an ege 
: : lege. 

1 teaspoon salt 1 cup milk or cream 
Pepper 


Mix, mold into small balls and fry in 


Potato Puffs 


\ 2 oups mushed potatoes 2 {poleepoons melted 


utter 
1 cup milk or cream 


Mash the potatoes, add the butter and 


beat to a cream. Add the eggs beaten 
 yery light, the milk or cream and seasoning 
to taste. Bake in 
oven, a ae 


a. deep dish in a quick 
‘Potato Biscuits 
2 teaspoons baking 


powder 
1 tablespoon lard 
Water : 


| Sift the flour and baking powder to- 


gether, add finely-mashed potatoes, lard, 
salt and enough water to make a biscuit 
dough. Rolland bake. 
j An Trishwoman. 
Apple Foam 
This makes a very delicious dessert. 


\/| after a hearty dinner. 
4 ae apples 


Egg whites 
ea ~ Lemon juice 
Whipped cream 


Core and bake, or stew. fine flavored 


| tart apples, rub through a'sieve. To each 
cup of apple pulp allow one egg 


half 
white and sugar to taste. A little lemon 
juice improves the flavor although this is 
not absolutely necessary. Chill the mix- 
ture and serve in sherbert glasses with a 
little whipped cream on top. If you have 
ay canned cherries cut one in petals, 
tulip fashion, for the top of each glass. 
Berve very cold. 


Canning Chicken 


Several subscribers have asked for a 


recipe for canning chicken. I have used 


the following one with excellent results. 
_ Kill fowl and draw at once, cut into con-. 
venient pieces, put in kettle with water 
- to cover half way, and simmer until meat 
| is tender. Remove from boiling liquid 
and take the meat from the er eta 


dlosely into glass jars; fill jars with the pot 
ie after it has been concentrated one 
lf, add level teaspoon of salt, xe quart 


‘for seasoning, put rubber and cap in 


position, screw the top down tight and 
f then back one-half “oun, if the clamp tops 


} 


ce uel 


en 
_ brown, add hot water or stock, and thicken 


“juice. 


‘the giblets with the rice and serve very — 


ne a 

leave the lower clamp up — 
Set in the boiler, cover one inch over the | 
top with water, and sterilize three and 
one-half hours. Remove jars, tighten 
covers, invert to seal and test joints. 
Wrap in paper when cool and store. 


144 cups. finel 
cracker crum! 
ee cup molasses 
sg | 1 teaspoon vanilla — os : 
Soak the cracker crumbs in the milk, 
then add the molasses, the egg, raisins, 
melted chocolate and vanilla. n into 
a well-buttered pudding mold and steam 
four hours. Serve hot with liquid or 

whipped cream sauce. 


Stewed Beef en Casserole 


If one has no proper casserole take a 
five pound butter crock and cover it. It 
makes a very good casserole indeed. The 
only difficulty is the contents must. be 
removed to another dish before serving. 


2 lbs. stewing beef A little suet 

2 onions 83 carrots 

4 slices of turnip 1 teaspoon vinegar 

1 pint of stock 1 pint water and one 

Salt and pepper oxo cube : 
Cut the steak in small pieces, sprinkle 

with pepper and salt. Fry the suet until 

the fat is extracted, then put in the pieces 

of meat, and fry until browned. 


rolled 


By an overwhelming majority 
the people of Western Can 
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Ribbon “Mountain Grown” 
Tea is the best. Ask for it. . 


or 


it with a little flour, add the vegetables 
cut in cubes, the vinegar, season with 
pepper and salt, put in casserole, cover 
closely and cook in a very slow oven for 
two and one-half hours. 


Rabbit a la Marengo 


Rather a formidable name for a poor 
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Prepare the rabbit and fry in very hot 
fat, until a nice brown. Make a sauce 
of the stock, tomatoes, vinegar, add the 
seasoning, onions and vegetables cut up. 
Put in the casserole and cook in a slow 
oven for two or two and one-half hours. 


Apple and Brown Bread Pudding 


2 oups bread crumbs 2 cups chopped apples — Trout, dressed and headless, from 
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raisins mixed with the flour and salt. Add “ wunalta, come only ie SBTh. boxe, 
the cup of milk to which the beaten egg ; 
has been added and beat well. Steam in 
buttered moulds two hours. Serve with 
lemon or vanilla sauce. 
Yankee Plum Pudding 
1 cup chopped suet 1 cup Domolco mo- 
3 cups flour lasses 8 
1 cup sour milk 1 small teaspoon soda 
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44 Ib. Ganaied peel 1 cup einine or dates 

Turn into buttered mold and steam 
three hours. Serve with lemon sauce. 


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- Herrings, per 100 Ibs... 
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Cut the cranberries in halves, add the 
seeded and shredded raisins and the 
flour and sugar mixed together. Pile this 
mixture in a pie plate lined with flaky 
pastry. Dot with butter and orange 
Cover with an upper crust and 

ake. Have the oven hot until the pastry 
is set then cooler. 


Dainty Sausage Pasties 
Sausage meat 5 1 beaten exe 
: Pastry . é 
Roll the pastry as thin as possible. 
Cut out little oval pieces three inches long. . 
Lay a small roll of sausage meat on the 
pastry. Fold the crust all around it 
tightly. Moisten the edges slightly and |. 
press them together. Place in a baking — 
an brush over with the beaten egg ani 
ake in a‘hot oven until a delicate brown. 
Do not make the roll of anne too thick 
or the meat will not be thoroughly cooked. 


Chicken Giblets and Rice 
ae Pepper and salt 
: : Cooked rice ee 
Cook the giblets, the feet and the win 
of the chickens. Chop and season well. 
Have ready a cupful of boiled rice. Mix 


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Chicken a la Maryland 
Fowl may be used instead of chickens 
in this dish. If fowl are used it is better 
to stew them instead of steaming them. 
1 chicken Flour Water 
Cut the chicken up as for frying, put in 
a pan in the steamer and cook until tender. 
Have some dripping or butter verv hot ina 
an, add the chicken and fry until brown. 
ake the liquid that has accumulated 
in the panin which the chicken was steam- 
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with a little flour and pour over the fried 
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Fish Cakes 


4 cups boiled fish Salt and pepper 
2 cups boiled potatoes 1 egg ; 
2 tablespoons grated 44 cup cream sauce 


onion 
Put the fish and potatoes through the 
food chopper, season and add the white 


sauce, the onion and the egg well beaten. , 


Form into balls and fry. If the fish used 
is salt the onion and egg may be omitted. 
Use less fish and’ more potatoes. 


Baked White Fish 

Clean and split the white fish and re- 
move the backbone and fins. Rinse the 
fish and wipe it dry. Rub a pan with 
butter, lay the fish in skin side down 
and while it is cooking baste frequently 
with butter or dripping to which a little 
pepper and salt have been added. When 


the fish is cooked put it on a hot platter 


and add a little lemon juice and pour over 
the fish. Garnish with thin slices of 
lemon. Serve with mashed potatoes. 


by Fish Chowder 

cups fish 1 quart potatoes 

4 Ib. salt pork 1 onion 
1 cup milk : 

Cut the pork in cubes and fry until the 
fat is well extracted, add the onion sliced, 
cook for one minute. Put on a kettle 
with fish and potatoes, first a layer of 
fish then one of potatoes, add enough 
water to partly cover. Cover closely and 
cook until the potatoes are tender. Add 
the milk, pepper and salt, cook up again 
and. serve. 

White Fish Gateau 
114 Ibs. white fish 2 tablespoons butter 
34 cup milk 2 eges 
44 cup bread crumbs “1 teaspoon anchovy 


1 tablespoon chopped sauce 
onion Salt and pepper 


Boil the fish, remove the skin and bones, 
chop the fish, put it.into a basin, add the 
bread crumbs, the butter melted, the 
seasonings, the egg well beaten and the 
milk. Turn into a well buttered mold, 
cover and steam for one hour. Serve 
with white sauce. ~ 


Baked Pork Chops With Apple 


Pork chops Sage 
Bread Crumbs Apples 
Salt and pepper 


Dust the chops with pepper, salt, dry 
bread crumbs and sage. Place ina baking 
pan and put on each one a half-cored 


2 
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apple. Cook in a moderate oven till 
tender. 
Bean Loaf 
2 cups boiled beans Salt and Re per 
2 cups nuts (hazel 1 cup boiled rice 
walnuts, pecans) 1 onion | 
2 eggs 1 cup milk 


1. tablespoon butter Summer savory 

Put the beans, nuts and onions through 
the meat grinder. Add the rice, the eggs 
and milk and the seasoning. Place in a 
small buttered pan and bake. Serve cold 
with salad dressing, Mrs. M.C.D, 


Five Ways of Serving Soup Meat 

I buy. a 25-cent piece of soup beef and 
cook it in the fireless cooker. The cooker 
prevents it from breaking up while cook- 
ing. 

(1) I sometimes slice the meat cold 
and serve it with horse-radish sauce. 

(2) I grind the meat, chop a few cold 
boiled potatoes, grate’ an onion, mix 
together, and fry like hash. 

(3) I grind the meat, boiled potatoes 
and onion together, mix with an egg, 
shape into meat cakes, and fry. 

(4) I cut the meat into small pieces 
add a medium sized onion, chop fine an 
mix with the following dressing: One 
tablespoon of butter, half a tablespoon 
each of flour and sugar, one teaspoon of 
mustard, one egg, half a cup of vinegar 
and one cup of milk, I mix it thoroughly 
and cook five minutes, and add half a cup 
of chopped sweet pickles. 

(5) J make one cup and a half of 
white sauce, add a chopped hard-boiled 
egg, and to this add the chopped meat. 
I prepare a nest of mashed potatoes 
mixed with grated cheese, brown in oven, 
and fill with the meat mixture. Serve 
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Ae 3H executive of the W.G.G.A. 
wo } of Saskatchewan met in Regina 


siding. Considerable business was — 


transacted. : 
In accordance with the result of the 
referendum re vice-president, submitted 


- to members of the W.G.GA. Board, 


Mrs. Frith was declared vice-president. 
Mrs. MecNaughtan was appointed 
Saskatchewan representative on the 
inter-provincial committee, such com- 


“mittee having been advocated at the 


various conventions of farm women 
held in recent years. : 

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had not been subscribed when the armis- 
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aceordingly get new directions from 
the contributors for the disposition of 
this money, and the proposal will be 
submitted to the various subscribers, 
‘that the money be transferred to some 
aS tae object which will be of help 
0 the provinee’s disabled soldiers. If 
this does not meet with approval, the 
alternative suggestion will be made 
that the fund be transferred to the Red 
Cross Society. 

Mrs. Frith reported the influenza had 
greatly interrupted work among the 
non-English, but plans had been pre- 
pared to start a night school for adulis 
im her district as soon as conditions 
permit, and there has been some evi- 


_ denee of similar work being taken up 


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“annual convention of the 


in other districts. 

It was decided that Mrs. MeNeal’s 
work in connection with labor-saving 
devices for farm homes should be 
placed on a more practical basis, and 
special features prepared for G.G.A, 
trading department exhibits. 

In connection with reconstruction, it 
was suggested that efforts be made to 
ascertain the possible supply of both 
trained and secondary nurses for our 
rural districts, it being precented that 
some of the returned V.A,.D.’s might 
be willing to take up this work. 

A telegram of congratulation was 
sent from the executive to the United 


‘Farm Women of Ontario, on the occa- 


sion of their first convention, express- 
ing hopes of closer co-operation between 
eastern and western organized farm 
women. ear use 

A report was received from the de- 
partment of labor on the result of the 
efforts of the department to co-operate 
with the various local councils of women 


and the W.G.G.A. to procure help for 


farm homes during harvest and thresh- 


ing. (Copies of this report can be pb 


tained from the secretary on applica- 


tion.) It was resolved to keep in touch 


with the new Federal labor bureau re 
domestic help on the farm next season. 
_. The question of affiliation with the 
new woman’s party was discussed, and 
the following resolution was passed :— 

‘* Whereas, so much of the proposed 
program of thé woman’s party is di; 
rectly contradictory to the new pro- 
posed platform of the Canadian Council 


of Agriculture, this executive of the 


women gtain growers urge all their 
members to take no steps that shall 
nullify the aims of the proposed plat- 
form of the Canadian Council of Agri- 
culture’? 

It was decided by the executive that 
no steps be taken to urge the appoint- 
ment of ‘a woman representative at the 
preliminary peace conference, as it was 
felt that the organized farm women 
would be more directly represented 
through the official delegates from the 
Sanadian Council of Apriculture. 

Valuable suggestions were received 
from the W.G.G.A. board re improve- 
ment in covention program, and con- 
siderable time was devoted to this sub- 
ject. It is hoped that the regrettable 


necessity for the cancellation of the 


district meetings will be compensated 
for by the increased interest taken by 
the members and delegates\in the sixth 

W.G.G.A. of 
Saskatchewan. — Violet Me Naughtan, 


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Regina Women Organize 5 


At.a meeting of Regina women held 


recently, to which representatives of 


a number of local societies were invited, 
a women’s section of the Regina local, 
Grain Growers’ Association was formed, 
consisting of 20 members, 

Mrs. GC. B. Flatt, president of the 
provincial body, took the chair, and 
with a couple of members of the local 


assisted in the formation of the sec- 


tion. Mrs. H. I. Armstrong was elected 
president; Mrs H. H. MeKinney, vice- 
president; Mrs. C. O,. Davidson, Mrs, 
8S. W. Yates and Mrs. H. A. Burrows, 
directors. Mrs. Yates was appointed 
acting secretary, and the executive wil] 
later appoint a permanent successor, 
Mrs. Flatt, Mrs. McKinney and Mrs. 
McNaughtan outlined branches of the 
grain growers’ work, and several sug- 
gestions weré made as to suitable work 
which the new section might take up. 
It was pointed out that there are many 
branches of work which should be 
taken up, but which the women on 
farms have not been able to go into 
sufficiently, as in districts where the 
section is the only women’s organiza- 
tion they feel compelled to go into 
various branches of work which in the 
cities are looked after by several socie- 
ties. Mrs. MeNaughtan expressed the 


Grain Growers in the Making 


opinion that now that patriotic work 
would shortly be at an end, other 
branches of work, such as education 
along political lines, would come in for 
a good share of attention. 

The section will meet on Friday, 
January 8, ‘at the Y.W.C.A. 


Seven Persons Much Alive 


Seven Persons U.F.W.A. has had a 
very successful year under the leader- 
ship of our splendid president, Mrs, J. 
A. Calder, who spares neither time nor 
work for the good of the local. Warly 
in the summer we bought a building 
in connection with the U.F.A., and we 


are now spending quite a lot of money. 


on it, getting it furnished, etc. We are 
trying to make it as comfortable as 
possible and hope to hold our meetings 
there in future. On July 1, ‘the U.PA. 
had a celebration in Seven Persons, and 
the U.F.W. gave a dinner, which 
brought in $151.15. We also sold tea 
and lemonade, on which we realized 
$55.65. In May we sent a cheque to the 
Y.M.C.A. Hut Fund for $17, besides 
which we also gave donations of $78 
each to the Red Cross and W.C.T.U. 
We hold our social meptings on the 
second Wednesday in each month at 
the homes of our members, and during 
the past year we have sewn for the 
Red Cross on these occasions. We were 
planning a play to be given in Novem- 
ber, but on account of the influenza 
epidemic this had to be postponed. We 
hope, however, to be able to give it 
on a-later date. Our members all seem 
to be very interested in the work.— 
Mrs. C. Spande Berg, Secretary. 
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Mrs. Dowler’s Son Missing __ 
Our director, Mrs. J. E. Dowler, of 
Veteran, has received news that her 
son, Lieut. Geo. E. Dowler, who was 
in the air service, in the front lines, 
is missing. A letter from his major 
says he was last seen in action very 
low over the German lines with several | 
other airmen. Lieut. Dowled’s machine 
and one other flew very low over the 
lines, but owing to the dense smoke, 
those who were watching could not seo 
what happened afterwards Both are 
missing since that time. The Major 
speaks very highly of Lieut. Dowler, 
We sincerely trust that his family may 
have better news of him. in the near 
future. : : 


“Flu’’ Quietents Affairs 
The secretary of Haynes U.F,W.A, 


advises us that they are still living, and 
only waiting for an opportunity . to 


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Our club started out bravely with 
the full outfit of officers and directors, 
I was the first president, and promised 
to hold down the job for six months, 
until the the society ‘‘got a goin’ 
good,’’ when I was to be relieved., 

Honestly, I did my best, and so did 
the vice-president and, secretary. We 
appointed committees who never did 
one thing; we tried to get up attrac- 
tive meetings, but the morning of the 
meeting, those who had to take part 
in the program would call me up on 
the phone to ask to be excused. [ fancy 
if the old king in Our Lord’s parable 
had been in possession of a phone, it- 
would have been ringing on that wed- 
ding morning just the way mine did, 
with the message, ‘‘I pray thee have 


Then the faithful secretary left the 
eoutry, but still the ‘‘vice’’? and I] 
‘carried on.’’ We carefully adver- 
tised the meetings, but the ladies would 
come to town the day before the meet- 
ing, or the day after, or the evening 
after the meeting was over, but never 
came near us. No one could be per- | 
suaded to take the secretary’s place, 
so thinking perhaps a new president 


and took up her work, and the viee- 
persident, who was a real, enthusiastic 
U.F.W. woman, became president. No 
improvement; she and I turned out to 
the meetings and sat alone, discussing |. 
affairs, until this spring her husband 
became ill, and it was necessary for 
them to seek another climate, und so 
they left. 

Now there is ‘‘One little nigger 
(myself) standing in a row.’? I am 
one of the provincial directors and I 
find among the new societies that I 
have organized that the ones away 
out from any town or village are by 
far the most enthusiastic and progres- | 
sive, and by conversations with the , 
women here and there I decided to EAKS 
visit the school] districts and organize ini 
separate circles, where they could have 
their own small egg marketing service, 
ete., but just when I was ready to be- 
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me, It is still pretty bad, as it. has 
broken out a second time, and so I 
am obliged to defer my efforts until 
later. IT am convinced that the majority 
of farm women take a greater interest 
and feel a stronger individual respon- 
sibility in these little country clubs in 
their own school districts. : 

When they have to come to town 
for their meeting, they run around, 
trying to get their bit of shopping 
done up and come into the meeting late 
to meet a few women who are almost 
strangers to them, as they come: from 


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Christmas Time 


Christmas time is drawing near, 
The snow is falling fast, 
_ The wind blows into every ear 

-. When you're out in that cold blast. 


Oo Christmas night when you're asleep, 
All the good girls and boys, : 
Stay in your bed and stay sy : 
And pour stocking will be filled with 
ys. 


_ in the morning you go in the living-room 
. And see a beautiful big tree; 
‘In the corner you see a little red broom, 
id you say, “A stocking for brother, 
sister and me.” 
Linnea Hillstrom, Strassburg, Sask. 


A Happy Christmas 
It was only two weeks till Christmas. 
Helen was sitting in the cold garret in 
which she lived. She was thinking what 
& dismal Christmas she would have. 
Underneath the garret lived a woman 
and her daughter who were quite wealthy. 
Christmas kept drawing nearer each day, 
A no hope of a happy Christmas for 
' out the window she heard a gentle knock 
at the door. She went to the door and 


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One day when she was looking . 


looked out, Betty was standing outside 


the door, for that was the girl’s name. 


“T thought vou would like to come 
down town with me, a8 you know to- 


morrow is Christmas,” said Betty. 
Helen, much pleased with the news, 
ran across the room and picked up her 


ragged cloak. And they soon were both © 


iin 


running down the stairs.” 

As they walked along the street, Helen 
noticed all the toys in the stores. They 
soon reached the baker's store, where 
they stopped and went in» There Betty 


bought plum puddings, cakes and other 


Christmas goodies. When Betty had 
done her shopping they entered the street 
again and walked home. 


Helen went to the garret and slept 


all night. In the morning she thought 
she would go and see Betty. As she 
opened the door a big parcel was outside. 
It contained clothes and a note which 
said that she was to live with this woman. 
So she had a happy Christmas after all.— 
Helen Pfefferle; Claresholm, Alta. 


« Christmas Party 

‘ The last, time I wrote I saw my letter 
in print, so I thought I would try again. 
I am going to tell about a Christmas 
arty I went to. The party was on 

hristmas eve, at my uncle’s house, 
about half a mile from our place. There 
were about 30 there. ‘ 

Soon after we got there Santa Claus 
came and rapped at the window and my 


poLy is having a sorry time of it: 


pups. 
dog catching, however. 


him. 


their freedom, Flannelfeet tried to keep them im the van but they fairly knocked him 
over as they scrambled out, It looks as if Poly will have to give up his dog-catching 
or the young Doo Dads will make his life miserable. 
a long time to get all the dogs in Wonderland rounded up at the rate he is going 
now for they are getting away from him faster than he is able to catch them. 


. were all very nice. 


POLY, THE DOG CATCHER, HAS A SAD TIME 


The young Doo Dads, like most small boys, 
love to have dogs around with them and so they had a great collection of mongrel 
They had become such a nuisance that the older Doo Dads determined to get 
rid of them so they appointed Poly as village dog-catcher, 
all the pups and cart them away to the dog pound. He did not get very far with his 
The young Doo Dads fairly swarmed around him and not even 
Flannelfeet; the Cop, with his policeman’s baton could keep them back. See how one 
little fellow is squaring up to Poly, while others are trying to rescue their pets from 

Perey Haw Haw, the Dude. and even old Doc Sawbones are enjoying the fun. 
Sleepy Sam, the Hobo, is also for a wonder awake and smiling. 
quite a collection of dogs in his van, but while he was busy catching more, two of the 
young fellows lifted up the trap door and let them all out. 


uncle told him to go.around to the door 
and come in. he came in and shook 
hands with everybody, then he went into 


the room where the tree was and lit the 


candles on the tree and put on the presents, 
Then he came out and took in more 

resents: Then we all went in and 

anta Claus gave us. our Christmas 
presents. The tree was a lovely sight 
as it was trimmed with tinsel and apples, 
cookies and candles. I got a doll carriage, 
a ribbon and other things. The presents 
€ We each got a bag 
with candy and nuts in it. 

There was also a lucky snowball. It 
had cotton around it tied with a red 
ribbon with a sprig of holly at the bow 
at the top. On the side of it was an 
envelope with numbers in it. My father, 
who was helping Santa Claus, cut the 
numbers apart, put them in a cap and 
shook them up. We each took a number. 
My number was 18. Every present in it 
was wrapped up and the number pasted 
on it. I got a little cannon to shoot peas 
with. My brother got a mallet. One boy 
got a thing something like a doll with 
orange and black stripes running around 
its body, its hands and feet the same, 
neck, arms and legs spring, colored black, 
and its head was a wire ring. When 
taking hold of its head and shook 4 little 
bit its head, arms and legs all moved. 

Next we had supper, which consisted 
of cake, cookies, popcorn balls, apples 
and coffee. They were all very good. 


His duty was to catch 


Poly has made 


They are certainly enjoying 


In any case, it would take him 


~ Hy Dixie 


Patton 


After supper we pened in the room where 
the tree was. We took the candle clips — 
and put them on unele’s vest. and kept 
him busy taking them off. 14 > were 
cookies cut the shape of animals, with 
frosting and caraway seed on them, hung 
on the tree. We didn’t like the caraway 
seed on them so we cut them to pieces 
with pop guns. We played a while 
longer then we went home. Some others 
did too. We had lots of fun. 1 will 
close now, wishing the club every success 
and hoping to see my letter in print. 
Bertha Newton, Dalemead, Alta, 


Wishing Us Good Luck 

IT am always glad when Christmas 
comes because you can send boxes to the 
boys over in France and England. They 
are always glad to get them. We peneeedh 
have a concert over in the school. . 
always get some toys and hope the rest 
get some toys too, JI am glad when 


Christmas eve comes for there is lots of 


fun then. A 

I wrote once before, but did not see 
my letter in print. I am sending 25 cents 
to the Blue Cross Fund. I hope to see 
this letter in print, and I hope to get a 
badge. Iam 11 years and am in grade 
four, I live a mile and a half from 
school. Wishing the club much success.— 


Erna Kirkpatrick, Laura, Sask. 
A Song of Joy 


Xmas day is near, 
The days of chill and cold; 


But we don’t mind it, 


For Xmas day is near, 


The snow is flying, 
The wind is blowing, 


‘Hark! I hear sleigh bells ringing, 


For Xmas day is near, 


The air is full of sparkling frost, 
As Xmas day draws near; : A 
Santa is filling his sleigh with toys for 
you and me, 
For Xmas day is near. 


Xmas cheer and New Year’s greetings, 
Xmas trees and holly. wreaths 
Are everywhere, 

For Xmas day is near, 


| than is now apparent. 


“been defeated, but most of them were 


he tellin of g 
oueral elections in “Great Britain has ak 
a ei a landslide for the Coalition Ne 
ernment headed by Lloyd Renee 
figures are as follows:— 
Qoalition Unionists ee 


- Coalition Liberals ... 
Coalition Laborites 
: Unionists store 


_ Laborites 
National Party 

__ Independents 
Shae ae 


mbesisyhe ve ser knead eriereemen ty siaan i haaem 


A Panmpk For Loya George 


Phe net result of the election is 

_ summed up in London papers as a per- 
sonal triumph for Premier Lloyd George 
im the disappearance of the two great 
poe the. Liberals and Irish National- 


othe eable disy atches say that the 
London papers without exception, empha- 
size that the election is not merely a 
ig triumph but a ga opportunity 

or Lloyd George, as the country insists 
on the earrying out of a vast program 
of social reform. They declare that 
the governing classes are on trial Ste 
if they fail to satisfy the country, a 
painful reckoning awaits them at the 
next election, which may come sooner 


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A Foregone Conclusion 


That the Coalition government would 
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clusion, despite the rumblings of rumor 
between the polling and the counting 
of the votes, that labor would make an 
unexpected show. But that David Lloyd 
George would command an overwhelin- 
_ing majority in the new house in the 

proportion of almost five to one had 
- never been contemplated, even by the 
most sanguine Coalitionists. And since 
_ coalition, as it now operates, is distinct- 
ly more Conservative than Liberal in 
the composition and tendencies, this 
result of the first election under the 
extended franchise and with the par- 
ticipation of millions of women voters | 
is most suggestive, 


Only One Woman Elected 
Of 14 women candidates, only one 
will be entitled to sit in the house of 
commons, namely, a Sinn Feiner, Coun- 
tess Markievicz, who was elected for 
Bt. Patrick’s division of Dublin City. 
It was she who in the insurrection in 
Dublin in 1916, shot a policeman; for 
which she was sentenced to death, but 
_ afterwards pardoned, But as the Sinn 
Feiners refuse to sit at Westminster, 
the house of. conan, will hitherto be 
aur osed ef males. 

All the other women candidates, in- 
eluding many of the foremost in the : 3 
women’s movements, were rejected by | Seeseecsssemecccecmmmms tO pest 
their constituencies. Christobel Pank- - a A TE TO 
hurst came the nearest to being elected, 
being defeated only by a narrow major- 
_ ity by a Laborite. 


‘Sinn Feiners Swept Frejand 


The Sinn Feiners, as expected, not 
only swept Ireland, but gained their 
seats with. enormous ‘Majorities, leay- 
ing the Nationalist representation in 
the new parliament a bare seven mem- 
bers. John Dillon, the Nationalist 
leader, was defeated by EB. De Valera, 
Sinn Feiner, for Hast Mayo, by a major- 
ity of over 4,000, Joseph Devlin, how- 
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WINNIPEG, MAN. 
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SUNN YBROOK FAPM, Stony Plain, Alta. el a ak 
the hip pocket 
of every garment. 


LOOK FOR IT! 


WESTERN KING 
Manufacturing Co, 


Limited 
Proprietor eo ne 
“Winniped Canada : 


The Grain Growers’ Guid 


Bow and Bromley division of Tower _ 


Hamlets) and Charles Trevelyan, former 
parliamentary secretary for education. 


Ex-Premier Asquith Beaten 

Among the surprises of the election 
was the defeat of Herbert Asquith, 
former premier. He is rejected in 
company with most of his ablest lieu- 
tenants, including Sir John Simon, 
former home secretary; Reginald Me- 
Kenna, former chancellor of the ex- 
ehequer; Walter Runciman, former 
pereett of the board of trade; Her- 
ert Samuel, former postmaster-general; 
Charles F. Masterman, former chancellor 
of the Duchy of Laneaster and others. 


Sinn Feiners Will Not Sit 
The Sinn Feiners in the recent elec- 


_ tion swept Leinster, Munster and Con- 


naught. Seventy members of parliament 
were elected by the party, but they will 
not take their seats. It is said by the 
Express that a central Sinn Fein Coun- 
eil, will be established in Dublin almost 


immediately and will call itself the 


Trish parliament. If the government 
orders its abandonment, it is said, it 
will establish itself elsewhere, or if 
necessary mové from place to place. 


Nearlv 6.000.000 Killed in War 


A desnatch from London states that 


with the issue of official figures of the « 


French losses in the war it is possible to 


arrive at the approximate estimate of. 


the appalling toll of life. The dead, so. 
far, number 5,936,504. 

The individual national losses in dead, 
thus far announced, are: British, 706,- 
726; French, 1,071,300; American, 58,- 
478; Russian, 1,700,000; Austrian, 800,- 
000: German, 1,600,000. 

The total German casualties are given 
by the Berlin Vowaerts as 6,330,000, and 
the Austrian total was placed at 4,000,- 
000. ‘ : 

Serbia, in killed, wounded and prison- 
ers, lost 320,000. 


Australia’s Wheat for Export 


Australia’s exportable 
wheat is estimated for the end of the 
year at 165,266,000 bushels. A report 
made on November 11 by the Australian 
wheat board and received by the de- 
partment of trade and commerce shows 
that stocks of wheat held by shippers 
and millers from the 1915-16-17-18 
pools were 162,187,000 bushels. This 
represents about one-third of the 1916- 
17 erop and the whole of the 1917-18 
crop so far unsold. .Into the three pools 
all states in the Commonwealth placed 
404,778,000 bushels. Shipments as grain 


and flour disposed of 139,861,000 bush- 


els and 92,392,000 bushels were sold 
within the Commonwealth. In addition 
to wheat awaiting shipment 9,798,000 
bushels of flour have been accumulated. 


Expansion of the Royal Bank 


The growth of the Royal Bank of 
Canada and the expansion of its operations 
not only throughout Canada but in Cuba 
the British West Indies and Central 
America and elsewhere outside the Dom- 
inion is one of the most remarkable of 
Canadian developments of recent years. 
Both in New York and London the Royal 
Bank has branches which transact great 
volumes of business. Several months ago 
the work of absorption of the Northern 
Crown Bank by the Royal Bank was 
completed. At the recent annual meeting 
of the shareholders at the head office in 
Montreal, the statement submitted showed 
that the assets have increased to a total 
of more than $427,000,000, with deposits, 
after withdrawals for Victory. bond pur- 
chases by depositors, amounting to 
$332,591,000, as against a total of $252, 
987,382 of deposits a.year ago. 


Patriotic Funds 


Belgian Relief Fund 
December 28, 1918. 
Previously acknowledged .......... eh 4 


Teece Family, Lemberg, Sask. ...... 
Stewart Sunday School, Bateman 


33.00 
3.00 


2.00 
1.50 


TOM lie, NDS SUE WP aly ee 1 


8°. Dunstan’s Schoo! for the Blind 


Prize Money-——-Greenwood G.G.A. 


Lloydminster, Sask. -.......-21.... $78.00 


surplus | of — 


i 
a 


WATCH OUR WEEKLY PRICES 
and ship your poultry to us. Our de- 
“mand for Live Poultry will be wanted 
greatly for all the year around, We ad- 
vise farmers who have not shipped to us 
yet to make a trial shipment and they 
will get satisfactory results, 
Note—We prepay crates to any. part 
of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, Watch 
our ad. euch week for prices. 
Prices for Live Weight are as follows:—— 
Fat Hons, 5 lbs. and over, per Ib.....28¢ 
Hens, any size under 5 Ihs., per Ib....... 20¢ 
Ducks, per lb... 1.2886 to. 26c 
Geese, per lb -283¢ to 25c 
Turkeys, in good condition. lb. 27¢ to 28¢ 
Chickens, in No. 1 condition, per Ib. 25¢ 
Chickens, in good marketable condi- 
tion,’ per Ibe. Mec chee ae atoere pace ia 23¢ 
Prices good until January 10th. 


These prices quoted are for poultry in 
good marketable condition. 


Canada Food Board License No, 7-299. 


Royal Produce Trading Co. 


97 ATKINS STREET, WINNIPEG, MAN. 


ee teen 


Poultry 
Live 


Hes, 5 lbs. and over, per lb. -25¢ 
Hens, smuller size, per lh. -23¢ 
Old Roostets, per Ib......... .20¢ 
Young Roosters, in No, 1 condition, lb, 27¢ 
Ducks, per Ih... eed 
‘Geese, per 1b... un 
Turkeys, in good condition, per 1b 
All prices live weight, F.0.B. Winnipeg 
and are guaranteed for 20 days from date. 

Prices quoted are for poultry in good 
marketable condition, 

Write us today for crates or ask your 
station agent for full information regard- 
ing crate requirements, then make crates 
yourself. Save time in shipping and erate 
charges out, 


Canada Food Board License No. 7-107. 


Golden Star Fruit & 


Produce Co. 
WINNIPEG 


: ve and Dressed 


POULTRY 


Farmers who haye not sold their poultry before 
Christmas .are requested to take advantage of our 
present prices, which we are offering and guar- 
teeing the following mentioned poultry at -follow- 
| ing prices + ‘ 
Old Hens, in good condition, size 4 Ibs., 
per 1b... Use 
Old Hens, 
Old Roosters, in good condition, per Ib. 200 
Geese, any age, in good condition, per lb. 220-240 
Ducks, any age, in good condition, per lb, 2 
Turkeys, in No. 1. condition, per Tb 2 
Young Roosters, 101N hateti, per Ib, 
Eggs, strictly new laid, per doz.... ( 
‘Above prices are for live weight, F O BR. Winni- 
per, and are for poultry in goud marketable con- 
dition. We are prepasing crates 10 any parts of 
Manitoba and Saskatchewan for above mentioned 
poultry. We are also handling any amounts of 
any Kind of dressed poultry at highest. market 
prices. We are in the market for dreased ‘hogs 
during the season at highest market — price. 
Kind.y write us for prices on hogs 


Sisskind-Tannenbaum Grocery Co. 
465 PRITCHARD AVENUE, WINNIPEG. 
Canada Food Board License No. 7-397. 


0-280 
25 


Got Gophers? 
all-Eme Quic 


Get. the Habit. Kill ’em Now! 
Keep on killing 'em! Use 


KILL - EM - QUICK 


Alberta Ships Berkshires to Japan 


Wm. Gilbert, Stony Plain, Alta., whose 
Berkshires are so well 


\ 


‘Another ( 
Like This 


+ 


_ WINNIPEG FUTURES The following summary shows the prevail-_ 
& December - Week {Year ing prices at present:— a 
i 24. 26) 26) 27.5) 28) 80: ) ago cago ; Butcher Cattle — i 
Oats-— Extra choice steers. $12.00 to $14.00 
Dec. 72 724 73% 73% 74% 73 862. Choice heavy steers 10,00 to 11,00 


x 
“May 774 re 78 78% 79} 792% 783 863 Medium to good ste 
8 


Barley—. Fair to medium steers. 8.00 to 9.00 
Dec. et 927 933 95)... bot ++. Common to fair steers. 7,00to 7.75 
bea 99 99% 100$ 102 103% 100}... Skate to tat heifers 9.00 to 9.50 
aX : ood to choice cow 7.50 t 8.50 
‘Deo, 321 825 9254 8204 32 325° 304 Fair to good cows... 6.80 to 7:50 
May 331 835 3354 336} 342% 8354 302 Penney and cutter cows. 4.50to 6.25 
ES ARTE Ost Tat Oxen....o 7.50to 8.00 
INTERIOR TERMINAL ELEVATOR STOCKS Canner and cutter oxen 5.00 to” 7.25. 
Movement of grain in interior terminal elevators Fat weighty bills 7.50 to ~B.00 
for the week ending Wednesday, Dee. 25, was Bologna bulls... 5.50to 7.00 
as follower Fat lambs... 12.00 to 18.00 
> AEE Peers - 419-1) Rahat - 7.0040 00 
ile- 4vee’u aur- |Ship’d dur-| Now in cep. 
vator | Grain] ing week | ing week store Veal Wave ewe aaa pike $05 900% 
Gels Choice, weighty, good-colored 
gary Wheat} 51,824 | ...,., 1,162,509 TOBRETR ee i se 8.50 to $10.00 
Ca ate 68,160 14.45 823/012 Common to good stockers and * 
“  JBarley| 9,326 | 11,656 | 166,600 feeders ote. see. peeeeatiene 20:30 to 8.50 Abso ute yn w 
HS MEM ge tees sa teeient fits are uate 1,303 Best milkers and springers..... 85.00 to 120,00 Ronde iui diamiediate 
«~ |Rye POE aN 20,692 Fair milkers and Big bs bakes $0.00 to 80,00 aa A 
freeiatv tee ees PO ROLAE Ns Satabin Aeckteras hn ta Ph oe Ogs le ivery 
Mobae B Selects, fed and watered........ $17.75 ONLY) 22 ; 
"oY [Oats'| 3.367 | sors | 'sei02 . Light hogs 0040. 18:00 
ats } 526, ( ight hogs.. .00 to i 
«* (Barley| < 3/049. | ..2, 44585 Sows - 11,75 to 18.75 Ae ae ee at 
> Max = 204 Piva oo Ch ODS Stags , 10.00 to 11,00 
GEG ES Nd ead olpeeoia armies Be ear el ear 1,763 Boars . i 6.00 to 9.00 
Saska- ¢ CALGARY 
toon |Wheat]’ 23,339 21,484 667,966 Calgary, Dec. 80, 1918, 
[Oats 96,327 12,234 557,799 The Livestock Department of ‘the United 
i [Barley| 12,371 1,312 73,638 Grain Growers Limited report this week's re- 
Hla Be tiene 790° ceipts as follows:— 


s10rses, 316; cattle, 5,807; hogs, 6,594; 
sheep, 1,677. 


° There were very, very few receipts at the 
The Livestock Market stocnyards tis week a DPREHEALY tue only 
- EG 


Easy to attach and detach and will not. 


offerings were a few held over. No real good 

WINNIP. cattle were on sale and only very moderate 

Winnipeg, Man., Dec. 80.—The United prices were realized. We would quote about 
Grain Growers Limited Livestock Department steady at last week’s close. Choice fat 75 each Du-a 
reports receipts of livestock for sale at the steers, 1,200 pounds and up, $11.50 to $138; - wi 
Union Stock Yards, St. Boniface, for the fair to medium butcher steers, $10.50 to $11; 


week ending, December 28, 1918, were as common rough butcher steers, $9.00 to $10; f you have oailin 01 orw. 
follows :— good fat cows and heifers, $7.00 to $8.00; lig t tractor on. your tenn ane is eictle 4 
3 Pave: Seer sheep and lambs, 442; calves, medium cows, $6.25 to $7.00 enti and opportunity, Pea oe, : 

; hogs, 3, ei cutters, $4.50 to $6.00; fat bulls $6.00 to 

Owing to the Christmas holidays the run $6.25 and common bulls, $5.00 to $6.00. Write at once or wire to ss 
of stock has been light and with most of the What few stockers that were on sale sold ey ; | 
heavy buyers away the market is slow and ‘about the same as the previous week, two- F k W ] 7 @ 
draggy. About the middle of next week we year-old steers, $8.50 to $9.50 and yearling ran ] son é 
expect to see the market steady again at steers, $7.50 to $8.00 for the best with com- ; 
last week's prices. Quite a number of orders ‘mon stuff a dollar lower, with stock heifers 33 Water Street 


are being received from farmers for stockers and cows from $6.00 to $7.00. A few good 
and feeders and owing to the ight runs this stock calves would have sold at from $7.00 to 
week these orders cannot be filled until next $7.50 but the receipts were altogether too 
» Week. We would advise all farmers contem- ligut to test the market, 


Winnipeg, Manitoba _ 


plating purchasing this class of stuff to place Top price of cattle a year ago, $9.25. 
their orders early as indications all point to Insufficient hogs were offered for the mar- 
Prise peeing frm and Verna ie at, ao otlatey we quote the market at $18. K 
iat hogs are on sale. are being dispose Lop price tor hogs a year ago, $19. 
of at last week’s prices and we look to see No sueep on sale, Would quote same as erosene 
these prices maintained for some time. last week, Choice fat lambs, not too heavy, a Le 
se a $12 to $13; wethers, $11 to $12; fat ewes, ‘i 
soe FIAED WHEAT PRICES $9.50 to $10, 4 
1 22 Boa BP GP NL Pee INS We do not look for any material change 


ac eee in price or for a very active market: until 
Fixed /2244}2214/2174/2113]1904]1904|2124/2124/208) aiter tue New Year. Hogs will, probably 
ei 


ar | : hold steady as the demand is good and all 
~eeo [221 [PIS [215 l208 186 /187 [215 [212 1207 Tockers ready to buy. 


Poti dsm chuhscecs  eese nC ota nc eaPn C NPO tan EE SCUREa CS Fa UU RN ese ce Me 
Cash Prices at Fort William and Port Arthur, Dec. 24 
to 30, inclusive 
cen ease tlc eC SS nce US A ee TL 


Whea OATS BARLEY RLAX RYF. 
Date | Feed }2CW 3CW Ex1 Fd 1Fd 2Fd sCW4Cw Rej. Fd. | 1 NW2CW 8CW |20W. 


a a a ae 


Deo.24 | .. | 724] 69. | 694] 6st] 64 | 92% 874 | 76% 74% | 322 | 318 | 206 | 140 
2 Se COE OEE Oay. | | 


TRACTOR. 


Reserve Power for Heavy Work 


5 

26 ah 694 7 69 644 nal 87 ri 74} | 326 | 322 | 309 140 % 

o7 es 73 s 70 69 64 93% 88 774 75% | 326 eat 3003} 140 "he Dray Kerosene Shunt, an exclusive — 
Pi bear 74 ‘0 71 70 65 ah 90 79 77 .| 327 |. 3284 38914! 140 Hart-Parr feuture; enables the tractor to 
30 75 71 72 71 66 972 92 802 78% | 333} 3:9} 307% 140 develop ituore power than any other trac: 


tor its size. It is guaranteed to do | 
We or uote work on kerosene as can 
be done on gasoline, 2 


Prompt Delivery Guaranteed. 
WRITE FOR FULL DETAILS and PRIO 


ago | 165| 733| 70 | 70¥| 693| 65 | 9331 884] 772 754 64 B22) 8003 140 
ago 170 | 853 | 814 | 814 | 79% | 733 | 138 | 138 117, 117 18}! 316 | ee 


een neers teers tenets 
neon cn eee nDNRIEeEREREmemeeee eae, 


LIVESTOCK Winnipeg | Calgary | ‘Yoronie j ot Mant Chicane : 
Dee.28 Your Ago | Dee 36 | Deo $6 | Deo 26 |. ves as Hart-Parr of Canada Ltd. 
Cattle $e SoclS$o $el$er Sol$ce $F$ol$e $SolF$e $e Winuipeg Saskatoon 
Choice steers... sss. 10.00-11 00] 9.00-10.50/11 50-13 00]14 25-14 $0115 00-15. 40/19 0-19.75 Pe One to eee 
Best butcher steers .....| 9.50-10.00} 8.00-9.00 [11 00-11 50/11 75 13 75!13.00-14 00/18 00 19. - _ 
Fair to good butcher steers} 8 00-9.00 | 550-800 |10 50-11 00]10 00-11 00) 850-950 |14 50-16 00 
Good to choice fat cows..| 7 50 8 50 | 7.00-8 25 | 700-8 00 | 9 00-9 75.| 7 25-850 | 8 00-11.00 
Medium to good cows ...| 6 50-7 50 | 6 50-7 25 | 6 25-7 00 | 6 50-7 50 | 6 00-8 00 | 7.50-9:00 
Canners .....-.../¢....] 4.50-5.50 | 4 00-5 50 | 4 50-6 00 | 5 00-5 85 | 5 00-5 25 | 6 BbD-6 85 
Good to choice heifers «../-9 00-9.50 | 7 50-8 75 | 7 50 8 10 |12.00-13.25! 7 50-8 00 | 9 00-10 00 
Fair to good heifers ..... 7 50-8 50 | 6.50-7.25 | 6 00-7 00 | 9.00-12 00! 5.75-7.00 | 7 BU-S 5O 
M Best OFM ps hea 750-8. 7.50-8.00] 5 00-7,00 | ae it 
Best butcher bulls i § ° 6 00-7 .25 | 6 00-6 25 | 9.50-10.50] 7.75-8.50 [10 00-12,50 Wioase the largest fanners of Chrome and 
Common to bologna bulls.) 5.50-7.00 | 5.50-6 75 | 5 00 6 00] 5.50-7.00 | 7.00-7.50 | 750-8 95 Oak tanned harness leathers. raw hide 
Fair to good feeder steers.| 8 50-10.50] 7.50-8 00 | 7.25-¥ 25 | 9.00-10.75]11.00-12 00] 9 50 10 50 lace and Chrome shoe leathers in Western 
Wair to good stocker steers} 6 50-850 | 5 50-7 40 | 8.50-9 00°] 7 00-8 50 50-9 00 | 9 RO-10 nO Canada Robes tanned frum cattle «nd 
Best mifkerk and springers verse hides and dined with the best 
(each) .. 20. ele. | $85-$120 $78-$90 Roeebn ausle ARIS HENS Race Pi ca os plushette obtpinable. 
Fair milkers and springers ’ { 
(each) ean $50~$80 BHO-SGS Ve Cee ici iit ya RAS AE Manufacturers of 
Hogs } ‘ Plow Boots and frost f Hair-ti 
Choice hogs, fed’ and : : : ‘ s FOREEREOD t-lines 
watered vo sessces ee. 17.75 | 17.00 | 17.60 | 1800 | 17.00 | 1750 aie oe 
pitt ows epee real eeu BOSE AE oe ie Fae Many nen te 15.85 vas \ coach ra 
OWA ita beads teks ae 13. 00-13. SL iey ed asses ge Bean i GET OW 
Stag a gees [10 00-11 OU) 8.00-10.00) 00020002 foots tee eta ay PCr en 
Sheep an 4 : } SUE 
Choice lambs... -. ..{12.00-18. 00]10.00-15.00/12 50 13.00] 14 78 14.60 14.75 The Camrose Tannery Company — 
Rest killing sheep ..... ..| 7 00-9 00 9.50 io 


8.00-12.00' 9 .50-10.50 10.50. | 8 00-8.50 


CAMROSE. ALTA : J 


- Qlliscellaneons) 


ALAMEDA A STOCK FARM HAVE FOR 
‘a number of Shorthorn bulls and females; 

also some well broke le resgene 

‘and carts. — iolted. 


Scott, Proprietor. 
OSES DIESE ain OE ESE SR 
FOR SALE—REGISTERED HAMPSHIRE 


swine. h 
BaD cach Write, Jas. A, seid “at 


my harness 
R. #H. 


; SELLING —AYRSHIRES AND. SHETLANDS, 
young nd from $50 up. John Teece, Aber: 
nethy, Sask. 


ca a ett enemas eR eT 
‘SPRUCE LAWN CLYDESDALES ign SHORT- 
320 : emg all ages. a 


iu 


OWAY BULLS, REGISTERED, FOR SALE, - 
pix to 


fifteen months, R. A. Wallace 
h River, yeaa uid aot 


HORSES 


. THE LARD STOCK FARM HAS FOR SALE 
Percheron and side soe stallions. 


-. Good ones. An: Liberal terms. Aber- 
-. deen-Angus cattle; yo young pens Serpuite hogs; - 

& boars; Bronze turkeys; Toulouse geese, 

aes AT Watson, Fillmore, Sask.” 47-5 

SELLING—IMPORTED REGISTERED PER- 

cheron Pgge rine “Utopia,” No. 66673; four 

rict reason for seélling. Write, 

WF F. Bente Pike Lake, 1-2 

FOR: SALE—BELGIAN STALLIONS, ONE 

years; one bay, five years. by 

Hoistade.” Scott Bros,, “Govan, 


R FEED—ARE YOUR HORSES 
SAVE xOUR 3 they bote or worms? Peerless 


», Brandon, Man. 


A. WALKER & SONS, CARNEGIE MAN.,, 
hate Clydesdales. Mares. and hee 


. 


FOR SALE—A Lek abana ds poses “i PRIZE 
: Benics Deck Percheron stallion. oman. 

3 are Sask. 49-13 

BRED RELGIAN STALLIONS AND 

fone. sale. Nachtegaele, North 
Battleford, Sask, Phone 334, ring 4. 50-1 


_ FOR SALE—PURE-BRED PERCHERON STAL- 


li stock horse and sure foal getter. 
Box 31, Btratholair, Man. 51-3 
DOGS 


ea enter ete eee 

SELLING —WOLE HOUNDS. ONE THRFE- 
ound, male, trained and fast, $50. 

Boe fr rosea part grey, malo, trained, $35, 
bree-year stag, female, trained and fi fast, 
gen Russian, trained, female, 


: six months, $10 ge 
BR Davie, PO. Boe i: Sprinaside! Sask, 52-3 


i aS eaten Dae NR NDT I Nr aS NY 
PEDIGREED SCOTCH COLLIE FARM BRED 
pups, parents excellent heelers, intelligent and 
obedient, either sex, $12. Peileee and photo 

of ‘dog heeling cows furnished. owe, 


Neepawa, Man. 1-2 


WELL BRED WOLF HOUND FOR SALE, 
18 months old, ae for training. Par make 
me an offer. H. Greenfield, Box 1 hahah 


MMM oe Ba 
|. PURE-BRED SCOTCH COLLIE PUPS, FROM 
ee cau $10. Frank Ballhorn, bilan 


: Pc cgdun ti RE ead as 
SELLING FOUR COYOTE HOUNDS, FAST, 
: ‘killers; guaranteed, © William Boulton, 
: 0343 104th’ Street, Edmonton, Alta, | 
oe 


_ FARM MACHINERY 


HP. >. AVERY UNDERMOUNTED 
engine, Alta., high-pressure neue F in 


: separator, 44-66, with 
Ess eg th feeder. Cockshutt eight-furrow gang 
gt stubble and breaker bottoms. Caboose, 9 x 21. 


cash, or trade for cattle or sheep. 
. Malin, Fertile, Sask. 52-2 


AGRE SLES EERO REPUB IS DAMLTSESNY nt Daa Sconon SeeCe 
SELLING—ONE AVERY 12-25 TRACTOR, USED 
one year, $1600. One 20 H Case steam 
tractor and secel se Fite first class era 
$2,400. Josiah Hill, Esterhasy, Sask. 51-5 


ia iecicappiiccm dane assnteeseenmdai aaa semester 

pill esincnTN OR TWO-AND-A-HALF EN- 

fee in good condition, Write, W. 
ag Pe Tocky. Sask, 


: SELLING 16 MOGUL . TRKACIOR, | PRICE 
$500, with extras. For particulars, write Jobn 
- Wake, Rorden. Sask. + 


gang, stubble and breaker bottoms; in first 
class shane F.C. Searcy, Craik Sask, 1-2 


_ SELLING—15- 30. ‘TIAN INTERNATIONAL; 


As shape; snap. Edlund Bros., Camrose, 

Alta. 1-2 

WANTERD—POWLK FANNING Mitt, 60-INCH 

: oe lerger. Robt. Rinne, Harrowby. Man. 50-4 

SELLING CHEAP—13-25 C.0.D. TRACTOR, 

nearly new. N. Rudy, Broderick, Sask. 42-3 
SHEEP 


SHEEP FOR SALE—GOOD GRADE EWES 
_ bred to Shropshire and Oxford rams. Phone 
beg or call, Simon Downie & Sons, Siang 

t 


peice meanest eetiliemereaannneeernetnenrrinaacnse nner 
| HEEP—LARGE gu snk eal al EWES, ALSO 
aoe range ewes, bred. H. F. McWilliams 
-Yorkton, y 51-6 


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“FOR pALE—14-INCH PIVE-tUKROW ENGINE . 


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SWINE 


FOR SALE-—YORKSHIRES, BOTH SEXES, 
spring litters. Also a fine fot of Barred Rock 
cockerels and pulleta, from imported stock, 
Phone Carman Exchange. Andrew Graham 
Roland, Man. arte 


ra and sows, from Prive winning stock. 
Shorthorn bulls and fema! 
choice Oxford ram wee left. A.D. McDonald 
& Sons, Nayinka, M tf 


JUST A FEW. REGISTERED YORKSHIRE 
sows left, nine months old and bred to our big 
herd boar, Some. prize winnets cluded. En- 
ae solicited, arvey Bros., Rapid ty, 


PURE-BRED_ POLAND-CHINA SWINE FOR 


sale, April farrow, good strong pigs. This h 
‘ f tay medal at hablar cy 


won Sheena an 
M. Welker, Box 247, 
50-4 


Fair, Saskatoo! 
Sutherland, Sank: 


SELLING—PURE-BRED CHESTER WHITE 

swine, bred Le the largest strain, oldest 
established herd of Chesters in Canada; both 
sex; fit for breeding; prices reasonable. J. H. 
George, Threehills, Alta. 


FOR SALE—YORKSHIRES, BROOD SOWS 
and boars, bred by University of Saskatchewan, 
from best selected stock. These are extra 
ead breeders. Also Barred Rock cockerels. 

Caswell, Saskatoon, 52-2 


REGISTERED BERKSHIRE SOWS, BRED, $65 
each. Also few one-year-old boars at $60 each. 
Place your orders early and the sows will be 
shipped when safe in pig. Write, H. Romkey, 
Keeler, Sask. 1-2 


FOR SALE-—POLAND-CHINAS, BOAR 


sows at $75 pair. Also pure-bred White aed 
cockerels at $1.00 each. Alex. Frazer, Walpole, 
_ Bask. 52-2 
HAMPSHIRES—SEVERAL ‘THRIFTY, PER- 


fectly marked ba hire boars, August litters, 


best breeding, 20 dollars each, Order today. 
F. McGill, Riverhurst, Sask. 52-3 


DUROC-JERSEY HOGS, EIGHT WEEKS OLD, 
$10 each; one sow, farrowed May 12, $40. 
Pedigrees pee free. Frank O'Higgins 
Wauchope, Sas) se 


SELLING—YORKSHIRES AT WILLOWVALE 
Farm. Young boars and sows of the right type. 
Only the best. offered: Geo. Ry Ball, R.R. 2, 
Strathcona, Alta. i 52-4 


FOR SALE—CHOICE REGISTERED DUROC- 


donee ag of April and June. ef Booking 
orders for spring pigs. ra ruce 
Grove Farm, Millet, Alta. " oP 51-3 


FOR SALE—PURE-BRED DUROC-JERSEY 
boars, April and May farrowed, from prive- 
winning stock. J.B. Wilson, Harris, Sask. 50-5 


_ REGISTERED YORKSHIRE BOARS, PEADY 


for service, $45 each. Bred “sows, $50 each. 
. Also Rose Comb R.I.R. cockerels, $2.50 and 
$5.00 each. A, Hooey, Eyebrow, Sask. 


CATTLE 


KILL THE LICE ON YOUR CATTLE BY USING 
Royal Sovereign Animal Lice Killer. Absolutely 


guaranteed. Not a liquid. Can be applied in 
coldest weather, 2-Ib. tins, 75c.; 4-Ib. tins, 
$1.25, postpaid. Sovereign Poultry Supply 


Eavee lid, lemcrter, Alta. 


CATTLE—continned ; 


FOR SALE—PURE-BRED HOLSTEIN BULL, : 


10 months old, weight 850 pounds, His dam is 
a heavy Piss out of ‘Modest Maiden 8rd,” 
who m over 23 pounds of butter in seven 
His sire is a hit! highly: bred bull, out 


Harding, Carroll, 


ag pov tay ink arr el BULLS, Pf MONTHS TO 
bog Se ears, not bred, 

gired be plana ir impo ae ‘80 young cows 
and heifers in calf, mostly by Duke of Saska- 
toon, son of Gainford Marquis. Prices reason- 
able. J. Boupsfield & Sons, Macgregor, Man. 4tf 


| 


‘RED POLLS—THE DUAL-PURPOS BREED 


~ unexcelled for either milk or beef, early maturing, 
* docile and uniform in color and shape. Ideal 
breed for the farmer. Have good young breeding 
set for sale. Fort Comfort Ranch, Acie 


FOR SALE—PURE-BRED ABERDEEN-ANGUS 
bull calves, ie months old. Pure-bred 


Emden geese, $5.00. Rose Comb RI. Red 
cock , $2.50. Conner and Hutchinson, 
soot Sask. 


SALE—60. HEAD REGISTERED HERE- 
teed cattle; 12 bull calves; 12 heifer calves; 
36 young cows and heifers in calf; 15 registered 
Berkshire pigs. ird, Pipestone Stock 
Farm, Broadview, Sask. 51-6 


SELLING—-SHORTHORNS, ONE YEARLING 
and 15 bull calves. Choice erowthy fellows in 
Hales condition. H. R. Toltan, Dek ea 
“Man, - 


HOLSTEIN BULL, ONE YEAR OLD, PART 
eng white points, from good stock. Price 
$150. Geo. L. Laycock, Ponoka, Alta, 1-2 


Deals Slt alts ata eSATA AGS A OR 

WORLD'S CHAMPION RED POLLED CATTLE. 
Jean Du Luth Farm, Duluth, Minn. Bulle sn 
RATE 


SFLLING—EIGHT-MONTHS-OLD HOLSTEIN 
, bull, “‘Korndyke Gerhen Lad,” No. 35898. 
Pritchard, Roland, Man. 52-' 


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oo 


SELLING—FINE REGISTERED RED POLL 
bull, two and a half vears old; a good stock 
getter. Apply, W. E. Malin, Fertile, Sask. 52-2 


ABERDEEN-ANGUS CATTLE. SANDY LAKE 
Stock Farm, Chas. Ellett, S. Edmonton, seit i 


RED ip olagtalid CATTLE—STOCK FOR SALE. 
E. & W. Darnbrough, Laura, Sask. 


BROWNE BROS., NEUDPORF, SASK., BREED- 
ers of Aberdeen-Angus cattle.. Stock for sale. 


FOR SALE—THREE FIRST CLASS ABER- 
deen-Angus bulls. P.Hay, Lintrathen, Man, 51-3 


“HAY FOR SALE 


EXTRA CHOICE SLOUGH HAY, READY, 
' “seven cars baled, $16.50. f,0.b. Invermay. 
Invermay G.G. Ltd., Invermay, 


Secretary, 
Sask, 


FOR SALE—300 TONS BALED RED TOP HAY. 
rice $20 to $23 per ton. J. Stewart, The ie 
an. 


HAY FOR SALE—PRICE ON outtanenmdtan’s 
C. England, Box 205, Calgary, Alta. 


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The Guide Sold Poultry For These ba ue 


Mrs. Bradshaw, Parkbeg, Sask., breeder of R. 
horns, gM us November 6, stat ing! 

summer brought very good results.”” 

Frank Breen Boissevain, Man., breeder of Bourbon Red 

hite Leghorns, wrote us November 30, stating: 


‘ Mr. 
turkeys and 8. C 


C. Brown Li 
‘phe last ad. tor eggs this 


“My. ad.,in only, Heute 671d ‘al the turkeys an‘! nearly all the cockerels\» 
80 Will hot spel ,any more advertising till spring. The Guide sure 


is & good seller. 


W.D. , ruce, Gl Glenayon, Sask., breeder of White Holland turkeys 


sf and Bm! 


» Wrote us December 9, stating: 
all the binds: t hig! we have to spare.” 


“We have sold 


If we can'do it for them we can do it for you 


Te A et like the above have come to us from hundreds of Guide readers who have 


used The Farmers’ Market Place and found that it pays. 


The Guide reaches more farmers 


in Western Canada than any other farm paper and for this kind of advertising it offers an 


_ especially low. rate. 
knows just where to look for it. 
Guide. 


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THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE - 


WINNIPEG, Le, 


avon stil etercis Gowen |) 
Ve) 4 
ment. Money fed by the if dissatisfied, Every > 


sa Sopa and tractor owner ged have bs 3 
D 


SPRUCE WATER TANEE ANY SIZE 24 A Oi 
shape, factory price. 8: r, cheaper and better | 
than galvanized iron. service. Brett | 

Mig. Co., Wi a ; 4otf 


PEERLESS GEAR OILER PREVENTS CUT- 


, saves oil, labor. Fits any tractor. Get _ 
our tractor equi ipped now. Brett Mfg. Co., 
innipeg. : 4ott | 


plait eae atscictonsuos Matinee akin NOnrOneea ON 

FOR SALE—BEAUTIFUL BLACK LAMB LADYS, __ 
coat, 38, peace new. Mm sMathcen anit 
Barclay, ancouver, A ae 


ARICEPT SAGA ee a MEI at ann 
BUY YOUR OUT-OF-TOWN SUPPLIES WITH 


Dominion Express nia ae Five fell 
costs three cents, i 


LUMBER, FENCE POSTS, ETC. 


IT WILL PAY YOU TO GET OUR PRICES 
on cedar, tamarac and willow posts, piling. 
shingles, etc. The Cedar Products Co., 23- 
Willowby Bldg., Saskatoon. — 


FARMERS AND KINDRED ORGANIZATIONS. 
write for prices on cedar, tamarac and. Q 
Boskat fii save you | na Drawer 1407. ‘4 

B' . 


FENCE POSTS-—-SPLIT CEDAR, ROUND TAM- 

arac and willow seHipe posts, 
rices delivered. Enterprise Lumber © 

dmonton, Alberta, i 


POISE AN SLU ERCTASSCAS RE ARE ANOLE SMC cl EC PTE 
SELLING—WILLOW FOSTS aia baci daa 
Adolf Benesch, Junkins, Alta. 


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' PATENTS AND cai 


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=) A, nar, KC. if 


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hee L'L.B. | Solicitors to United Grain 
Growers ‘Limited ree subsi _companies 


Offices, 503-504 Win: Railway 
Building, Winnipeg. PO Bor 158. Telephon 


PATENT YOUR INVENTIONS-—SEND S: 
for free patentability report direct from Ottawa. 
pods ‘Patent Protection,’ mailed without 
Clients’ patents advertised in “Patent 
ig ‘anadian » eet magazine, — 
Gace ae 


FETHERSTONHAUGH & Co, . 
tablished 


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PATENTS—CANADIAN, FOREIGN. 
R. Case, Patent 
Toronto Rooklets fre 


REIS Mod Lida BE beleetnsihinelii ks ihe ON Ss oct eR ES Si 

RIDOUT AND MAYBEE, 59 YONGE STREET, 
Toronto, solicitors for patents and experts in 
patent law. Send for our handbook. 


a ae a ee 
RUSSELL HARTNEY, BARRISTER, SASKA. 
toon. ;  OtK 


EGERTON 
Pt eers 10 Adelaide Hast. 


FARM LANDS. 


ay gree HAVE FARM LANDS FOR: 
cheap, in atchewan. Can patisfy the 
aac iprdanecties Lerelrt ha gst 


In aie instances, 
the sum of $200 cover | joe a 
first year’s payment, Write us To jap 
statin district desir Will 2! eupp 

full details, © Royal Trust ae ut 

of Montreal, Winn nipeg. 


at 5 ela NH health reagon for selling. 
A. ae ae Box 347, Winnifred, AVE: oe 


FOR. SALE—320 see UNIMPROVED, ee 
miles gine 


exccrcenpenetemnenensmenennnen 
PUG btalih, MUST SELL HALF SECTION 


near Saskatchewan River, 40. fence, balance 
improved, 193 acres ready for gti also 340° 
government lease, fence; building wood, plenty 

of water. George Neigel, Riverhurst, Sask. 524 


tt 

SELL YOUR PROPERTY QUICKLY FOR> 
cash, no matter where located. Particulars free. 
Real Estate anaes Co., Dept. 18; Lincoln, 
Nebr. : We Bi, 51-4 


FOR SALE—FIVE QUARTERS OF FINE 
t land, improved. Will sell all or 
Part cash, balance easy terms. Box 338, Winnt 
52- 


5 , 


FOR BRITISH COLUMBIA FARMS AND- 
chicken ranches, write to Pemberton & Son 
418 Howe St., Vancouver. Established pale 

, < { 


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: 


WANTED TO HEAR FROM OWNER OF 
good farm Ge sale, State cash price, full partie- : 
ulars. D. F. Bush, Minneapolis, Minn, ( 


CITY PROPERTY 


FOR” SALE ‘OR TRADE — PORTAGE LA 
Prairie. Seven-roomed house, hot water 
avatem, with three or seven lots. Price 
ou take young Pi 
LP Ececaeus sale Oy 


eron mares 
berte. 


z “the Hos 
ces ted from Tom and Will 
re, England, 1914. These are 8) 
BAS aera 
: -type, $6.00 each; 0 ege-type 
eh $8.00 cach. A. W. Cooke, Bor 663, Kelowna, 


POULTRY SUPPLIES—LEG BANDS, ALU- 
minum, 90c¢ 100; celluloid colored spiral, $1.00 
100; shippi crates, one bird, 40¢; two birds, 50c; 
egg boxes, 15 eggs, $2.00 doz,; 30, $3.00; incu- 
bator thermometers,. $1.00; laying mash, $5.00 
100 Ibs. Complete poultry supply catalog free. 

Brett Mfg. Co., Winnipeg. - ‘ 52tf 


oms, $6.00; hens 00, 

Rock cockerels, $3.00. and $5.00. Also about 

500 bushels of Mensury barley, recleaned, at 

ig per bushel, Jas. R. Stewart, asapame 8 
lan. ua 49- 


SCENE UE PARLE ei RGU, ORO 
WHITE HOLLAND TURKEY TOMS, $6.00; 
hens, $5.00. White Wyandotte cockerels, $3.00 
and $5.00, Dorcas strain. White Pekin drakes, 
$5.00; ducks, $4.00. Kay Bros., Carlyle, ae 


ROSE COMB RHODE ISLAND RED COCK- 
erela, bred from first pu cockerel at Brandon, 
1918, $5.00 each. Also choice Single Comb 
White Leghorn cockerels, $3.00 Anh Don. 
Fraser, Strassburg, Sask. ; 51-2 


ROSE COMB RHODE ISLAND RED COCK- 
erels, from prize winners, two years in succession, 
fine laying strain, $3.00 to $5.00 each. Satis- 
faction guaranteed. Mrs. Thos. Murray, Sr., 
Yellow Grass, Sask. ah 52-2 


HATCHING EGGS, BABY CHICKS. BREED- 
ers—Barred Rocks, Anconas, Leghorns. Write 
rice list and show winnings and. references, 
Bianite Poultry Yards, 359 Searboro Ave., 
Calgary, Alta. (eh : 


SELLING--PURE-BRED S.C. BLACK MINORCA 
cockerels, $4.00 each; choice birds, $5.00, Also 
pure-bred 8.C, White Leghorn cockerels, $4.00 
each; choice birds, $5.00. Mra. A. J. Vansickle, 
Outlook, Sask. rad Si nice 


‘PURE. BARRED ROCK COCKERELS TO 
clear, $3.00 each. Mammoth Bronze tom 
turkeys, large birds, $6.00; hens, $3.00. Mrs. 
M. Nicolson, Semans, Sask. 


aes bigness Siccaie A sabe 
now spring delivery. 
Ranch,. Rteoeutons | B.C. 49-4 


PURE-BRED MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS, 
young toms, $7.00; hens, $5.00. Satisfaction 
Staats rder early. 

ipton, Sask. — 


RHODE ISLAND RED COCKERELS FOR SALE, 
rose comb, extra fine birds. 
Salkeld Bros., Woodland Farm, Gerald, pane 


SELLING—-WHITE WYANDOTTE COCKER- 
els, April and May: hatched, 
stook. ice $3.50 and $5.00. each. 
Dobson, Carnduff, Sask. 


FOR SALE—THOROUGHBRED ROSE COMB 
Brown Leghorn cockerels and Aneicy bred from 
tested layers. Galloway English, Box F, 
Ingersoll, Ont. 


FOR SALE—PURE-BRED BARRED ROCK’ 
cockerels, Exhibition and Utility,” good eg; 
laying strain, $5.00 up. BE. B. Carruthers, 113 

Redland Ave., Moose Jaw, Sask. 51- 


enry C: 
50-5 


laying, trap: i f 
Mrs. john Stanley, Carnduf, Sask. 52-2 
ROOSTERS, HENS, PULLETS—CHOICE LOT, 
White Wyandottes, Martin Regal strain, $3.00, 
$2.50, $2.00. Satisfaction guaranteed. H. M. 
Crabb, Borden, Sask. = | 


cnet er a PN A RE 
FOR SALE—PURE-BRED ROSE COMB 
Brown Leghorn cockerels, $3.00 each. From 
tested layers. Write, O. F, Warner, Wolseley, 
Sask... 52-2 
SN REI ACESS PE SU ac ean a 
SELLING--PURE-BRED ROSE COMB RHODE 
Island Red. cockerels, $3.50 to $5.00; od 
$3.00. Leghorn cockerels, $3.00. W. E 
ville, Hartney,’ Man, 52-2 
FOR SALE—CHOICE PURE-BRED WHITE 
Wyandotte cockerels, old bird Agricultural 
College stock, $4.00 to $6.00-each. R. M. 
Salkeld, Gerald, Sask. ( 52-2 


THE REMAINDER OF R. I. RED COCKERELS 
owned by Mrs, Jas, ©. Johnston for sale at 
$2.50; single combs, $2,00; fine birds. J: 
Murray, Box 26, Yellow Grass, Sask 


BARRED ROCK . COCKER. LS—GUILD’S 
strain, fine, vigorous, well-marked, early-hatched 
birds, $3.00 to $5.00. Stubbs’ Poultry Yards, 
Birtle, Man. 52-4 


: 00. pulleta and hens 
at $2.00, HB. L, Fowle, Keeler, Sask. 


PURE-BRED MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS, 
toms, $8.00; hens, sna ae Pi specimens. 
Young toms weigh from 20-24 Ibs. Otto Idso, 
Fillmore, Sask. : 1-2 

) \ROUR CHOICE BARRED ROCK COCKERELS, 
4\ pil and five 4 ed ee Oats or 

$15 lot. First prize Boys’ and Girls’ Club Fair. 

| Jessie Mowbray, Cartwright, Man. ; 

. LARGE ROSE COMB RHODE ISLAND 

Red ‘kerels, bred from laying strain, $2.50; 

four for $8.00, Gustav Meilicke & Son, Dun- 

durn, Sask. Si eles 


LING—BARRED ROCK COCKERELS, $2.25 


51-3. 


Price $5.00, 


from nh iene ; 


"62-2 . 


h. J. W, Maguire, Box 63, HlginJMan. 51-3 


_ POULTRY—continued 
‘ i (i has. D. ott, Kincaid, 
co gh dail Bala aoa 


BARRED ROCK COCKERELS-—-WE HAVE 20 


xt ‘ood: hatched birds at $3.00 each. | 
TF eee cae 50-4 


PURE-BRED WHITE WYANDOTTE COCK- 
erels for sale, choice early birds, $3.00 each 
Mrs, James Strang, Baldur, Man. ; 1-4 


RHODE ISLAND RED COCKERELS, 3, 4 AND 
5 sollars each. Frank Holmes, pronaay 


in. 


WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS FOR SALE, 
toms, $6.00; hens, $5.00. Mrs. A. D. Naismith 
Wawanesa, Man. 44. 


TOM BARRON 282-EGG-STR LEGHORNS 
and Wyandottes, imported direct. J. J. Funk 
er, Man. * 42-18 


o- 


extra fine, from prize winners, $3.00 
Briarwood Poultry Farm, Leney, Sask. 


cen ROE ele 
orns, Buf ons and Rouen ea. 
Ellen Jickling, RR 8, Carman, Man, 51-5 


WHITE HOLLAND TOMS, $5.00; HENS, $4.00. 
No orders after January 1, J. Lester Markham, 
Waldron, Sask. , 51-4 


an, 


SELLING—-WHITE ROCK COCKERELS, NEW- 
Coin and Dulmage strains. H. Hand, Box 314, 
Virden. : 49-7 


FOR SALE—PURE-BREO SINGLE COMB 
Rhode Island Red cockerels, $2.00 each. Lee 
Donogh, Griswold, Man. 50-4 


BARRED ROCK COCKERELS, MAY HATCHED, 
ae pair, $4.00. J. Maclachlan, busty ic" 


MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS, SPLENDID — 


specimens. Hens, $4.50; toms, $6.00; unrelated 
pairs, $10, George Sawyer, Midale, Sask. 51-4 


SELLING—BARRED ROCK PURE-BRED 
cockerels, college strain, bred-to-lay variety, 
. $2.00 up, §. J. Andrews, Oak Bank, Man. 


BARRED ROCK COCKERELS, MAY HATCHED, 
$3 60, W: A. Stirling, “Duflield, 


00; ir, , $5. 
Alberta, 


esate a ae ce 
PURE-BRED SINGLE COMB WHITE LEG- 
horn cockerels, excellent stock, $3.00 each. 

V Cowan, Waldeck, Sask ‘ 1-2 


,els, $2.00 each, Mrs. EH. Pearson, Esterhazy, 
Sask. erat 2 
POEL Nt Aare TEES aulabee ee athe low se MReAte ARES ANTE 
PURE-LERED BUFF ORPINGTON COCKERELS, 
$4.00 each; also pure-bred Buff hens, $2.00, 
B.C. strain, Mrs. A. Dignan, Marquis, Sask. 


TOULOUSE GEESE—MALES, $5.00; FEMALES, 
$4.00; utility. birds, from exhibition stock. 
Foster Bros., Lena, Man. 1-2 


FEW PURE-BRED SINGLE COMB RHODE 
Island’ Red cockerels left, laying strain, $2.50; 


two for $4.50. Justin Bergh, Cereal, Alta, — 1-2 
PURE-BRED BARRED ROCK COCKERELS, 
$2'50. William Gifford, Glenside, Sask, 1-2 


PURE-BRED BARRED ROCK . COCKERELS, 
$2.50. Mra. Jas. Busby, Laura, Sask. 50-4 


PURE-BRED BUFF ORPINGTON COCKERELS, 
$2.50 each. Mrs. Gwyn, Vanscoy, Sask. 52-2 


THE SAFE WAY TO SEND MONEY BY MAIL 
is by Dominion Express Money Order: 


PY} 


SEED GRAIN 


4 


SELLING—100 BUSHELS “WORLD'S | WON- 
~ der” winter wheat, which is a new variety of 
"winter wheat which I crossed myself. It is 
crossed with three different strains of winter 
wheat. I have raised it here in Southern Alberta 
successfully ever since year 1909 and never had 
a failure. In the year of 1915 it averaged 
85 bushels per acre.. My idea of crossing this 
wheat was to be able to produce a wheat that 
could stand any climate, oy or wet. Neither 
drought, wet or frost can kill this wheat. 
wheat can be raised in Saskatchewan and 
Dakota, where no winter wheat has 
success. Price $25 per bushel. A. 
Box 347, Winnifred, Alberta, 


been a 


KITCHENER, TAYLOR’S WHEATS, HIGHEST 
yielders our grounds. Norwa) i Gold 
ueen oats, long heads, heavy yielders; Banner, 
ictory oats from noted strains, 10 bushels, 
$17.7 Mensury barley, splendid stock from 
registered seed, breaking grown, 10 bushels, $25 
pops newest varieties, 25 cents. Corres- 
ondence solicited. 
oose Jaw, Sask. 


FOR SALE—1,200 BUSHELS MARQUIS 
wheat, grown from registered seed by a member 
of the association, over 99% pure. Clean 
Teady for seeding at. $2.25 per bushel. ] 
i, bushels pure Banner oats, grown from 
registered seed, price 95c. per bushel, Jackson 

‘ Newsham, Innisfail, Alberta. 51-3 


‘WANTED--ONE CAR SEED OATS, FREE 


from noxious weeds. Send samples and prices. 
Watrous G. G. Assn., Watrous, Sask., R WS 
Broadfoot, Sec:-Treas. | 


FOR -SALE—SEED AND FEED -OATS AND 
barley, green oat sheaves, green..wheat hay, 
wild meadow hay. Write for prices. W. 
Cleary, Watson, Sask. 50-4 


treed at Wauwiaee, Akay mk tee 
Ww) Hi rh s 
Battleview. Alta, eee B23 


nnn 
ROSE COMB BROWN LEGHORN COCKER. 


Rister, 


J. W. Broatch, Box 786, . 


PURE-BRED GOLDEN WYANDO TTE COCK- — “AND” : 
“for sale, Oats, $1.10; , $1.25; rye, $ 
% Send for samples. rod Dey’ 4 Sons, "So 


WANTE 


+ 


100 =B : 
oats. E. Webster, Sheho, Sask. 


WANTED—CAR FEED OATS. SAMPLE AND 
price. Lester Hammond, Maple Creel, Sask, 


TAYLOR’S WHEAT, ONLY $2.50 PER BUSHEL. 
Thorpe Patt $1.50, Sacks extra. Lewis, 
Vanscoy, Sask. 52-2 


FOR SALE--SEED OATS AND BARLEY, HIGH | 


ation test. Carlots. Oats, 90 cents. 

arley, $1.50. J. R. Dickie, Melfort, Sask. 52-2 
SELLING—WELL COLORED AND DEVEL- 
‘oped ‘Marquis wheat, $2.50 bushel. Hans 


Oraas, Swanson, a 
WANTED—ONE CAR FEED OATS. SEND 
E. J, Demaine, Demaine, 


sample and price, 
Sask. ‘ 


SEED FLAX, $4.00 BUSHEL F.O.B.; CASH 
ith order; "bags 50c. Gordon Mclaren, ne 
me, Man. fh i 


i REGISTERED SEED @ 

No seed may be sold as registered seed except 
that which is inspected, sealed and ed by 
an inspector of the Canadian Seed Growers’ 
Association. All registered seed ‘is inspected 
in the field while growing to ensure its purity, 
and is further inspected after cleaning to ensure 
its high quality. All registered seed is 

teed pure as to variety, free from 8 
free from noxious. 
weed seeds, matured, clean, sound, 
plump, well colored and germinating not less 
than 95 per cent. Registered seed is un- 
‘doubtedly the highest quality of seed grain 
‘and pales available. Uts production requires 
infinite painstaking and ‘patience and its value 
is much more than that of ordinary seed. 


other cultivated pilaate, 
wel 


REGISTERED VICTORY OATS—-GROWN 
under Canadian Seed Growers’ rules, Certificate 
with each sack. 20 bushel or over, $1.65 
less, $1.70 bushel, f.o.b, Borden. J. K. Wake, 

__ Borden, (i 1-2 


HONEY 


PETTIT’S CLOVER HONEY IS GOOD HONEY. 
A crate of six 10-pound pails for $17.00. Cheaper 


Apiaries, Georgetown, Ont. 


Victory Bond Values 


As this issue of The Guide goes to 


press, the following information comes 
to hand:— 

All maturities of the 1917 issue, that 
is, due December 1, 1922, December 1, 
1927, and December 1, 1937, are now 
listed on the open market and are not 
subject to the price control of the Vic- 
tory Loan Special Committee. 

The value, therefore, varies from day 
to day and apparently the effect of the 
listing has been to reduce the value of 
the bond maturing December+1, 1922 to 
about 98; of the bond maturing Decem- 
ber 1, 1927, to about par, and to increase 
the value of the bond maturing Decem- 
ber 1, 1937 to about 1014 to 102. These 
are prices which approximate the 
amount sellers should receive for the 
different, issues. 

The 1918 issue, viz., bond maturing 
November 1, 1923, and November 1, 
1933, continue under the control of the 
Victory Loan Special Committee and 
the fixed prices and conditions formerly 
prevailing are still in force. 


Agricultural Representatives 

John A. Maharg, M.P., president of the 
Saskatchewan Grain Growers’ Associa- 
tion, has left for London, in the place 
of H. W. Wood, president of the Cana- 
dian Council of Agriculture, who found 


- himself unable to go, as the represent- 


ative named by the council to be a mem- 
ber of the commission «gent across the 
Atlantic by the Dominion government, 
with a view to the securing of extended 
markets for the products of Canadian 
industry. Norman Lambert, secretary 
of the council, whom the council decided 
to send at its own expense, in the in, 
terests of Canadian agricultural indus- 
try, has also sailed. 


Schools to Remain Closed __ 
Alberta Provincial Schools of Agri- 
culture will not open for regular stud- 
ents until the fall of 1919. The schools 


-were not opened on October 29, last, 


because of the epidemic. They were 
given up to hospital purposes. The situ- | 


ation is bad again, especially at Olds 
and Claresholm, 


When things clear up 
again it is hoped to put on short-course 
work in gas engines, tractors, stock, 
grain, etc., and also to co-operate with 
the Dominion authorities in the instruc- 


tion of returned veterans. 


i 


purpose of taking these application 


| furnishes correct! 


shel ; 


reight rate ‘on two or more crates, The Pettit 


¢opies daily. 


form that all applications must be taker 
by the Secretary-Treasurer of the Mu- 

cipalities of organized districts, or 
if peta esie by the Provincial Offic 
of the Department of Municipal Affairs 

Both retary-Treasurers and Pro-— 
vineial Government Officers will be 
made Commissioners of Oaths for the 


Care should be taken to see that the 
settler correetly describes his land and 
all the other inform- 
ation asked in the application. 
Any entrant who has obtained his 
recommendation for Patent is consid- — 
ered to be in the same position as an 
entrant who has obtained his Patent, | 
and is therefore not eligible for an ad- 
vance under these regulations, He wil 
have to make ‘his arrangements with 
the Municipalities, the same jas any 
other settler who owns his land. 
No settler will be allowed more than 
1% bushels wheat Ne 

or 24 bushels oats 
or 2 bushels barley 
of unpatented land ready for cultiva: 
See that the form is made out 
legibly and that the settler signs same 
with correct spelling of his name. Be 
sure that the Post Office address is 
correct, The chartered bank he names | 
should be correctly described, and should i 


«per acre,! 


be either the one he does his business 
with or the most convenient one, = {__ 
You are only to accept applications | 
from unpatented land holders whose 
land you know will go unseeded if the 
are not assisted. : es 
Please do not accept any application 
for more Seed Grain than is necessary _ 
to seed the acreage ready for cultiva- 
tion on the unpatented land. In the _ 
event of an applicant holding both 
patented and unpatented land, the appli- _ 
cation form furnished by the Dominion 
Government only covers as stated above, 
the seed necessary for the acreage ready 
for cultivation on the unpatented land 
and does not in any way apply to what 
may require for his patented land which © 
must be acquired through the Munici- 
ality under the Provirtcial Government _ 
Legislation, a 
Before the applicant is sworn, read 


application carefully and see that all 


the necessary particulars are correctly 

filled in. You will then sign the formal 

recommendation on the bottom of the 
application. Forward both copies of 
same to the Agent of Dominion Lands 
of the district in which the land des- 
cribed is situated on the day you re- 
ceive the application. Forward these 


You may inform all applicants that — 
‘vhen their application is approved, they 
will be notified by the bank to appear — 
in person at the bank where they can 
sign the required security, and obtain 
an order on the person from whom they 
have purchased seed. Such an order, © 
when endorsed by the person who Has 
supplied the seed, will be cashed by any 
bank. Shae Le es : 

The applicant should make his 
arrangements re the purchase of seed — 
before he comes to the bank so that he 
will be able to supply the bank with the 
name of the person upon whom the 
order should be issued. See 

All applications should be filed be- 
fore January 31st, 1919. The Govern- — 
ment cannot undertake to deal with 
applications made after that date. ss 

Any further information can be ob- — 
tained from Mr. H. G. Cuttle, Chief 
Inspector of Dominion Lands Agencies, 


Winnipeg, or the undersigned. — 
GHO. D. POPR 

: - Controller of Revenu 
Department of the Interior, Ottawa. 
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